Although it may sound rather strange, one of the biggest software releases that's going to take place at this year's MacWorld Expo comes from Microsoft. On the other hand, it's good to see that Bill's company gets back on the Mac, especially since the last Office package for this platform was released back in 2004...


The official site for Microsoft Office:Mac 2008 is already up, and you can see it here. Since it's already announced that the big realease is going to take place on the 15th of January, there's no question about where this is taking place, so let's try to take a look at the features that should help Microsoft's Office for Mac take on Apple's iWork suite, shall we?

First of all, it seems that the applications included in this Office version for Mac are still Carbon, but they combine some Office 2007 novelties, such as the ribbon, and Leopard's look and feel.

Word is going to feature the new Publishing Layout View, together with support for OpenType, but Excel seems to lack some important things, like the support for Visual Basic for Applications, which is still present in Office 2007. Obviously, this may lead to compatibility problems in large companies that use both Windows and Mac, so they may end up running Office 2007 in Parallels, which is not a brilliant idea, but ends up with a double purchase from Microsoft(Windows and Office 2007), instead of only Office 2008...

At last, it seems PowerPoint and Entourage also got various improvements, but it doesn't seem to be anything worth being mentioned at this time. Just wait a few days, and we'll surely know a lot more, as soon as the real thing comes out...

Despite the fact Macs are not invulnerable to cybernetic attacks, it is well known that Apple's Mac OS is one of the safest operating systems available, and the list of detected threats present on those few sites belonging to Mac antivirus software companies is ridiculously small, when compared to the thousands and thousands of threats that can attack computers using Windows. Anyway, today I just found out about a new antispyware product for Mac, and I have to share this with you...


I know the image above may be misleading, because we'll be talking about a product related to MacScan, but not MacScan itself, but this was the best image matching the topic, and here's why...

Usually, antivirus companies release free tools that are able to eliminate single threats, or a reduced number of viruses from the same family, and SecureMac, MacScan's producer, did exactly the same thing by releasing DNSChanger Removal Tool.

This small freeware program has only one purpose - to detect and eliminate from your Mac what seems to be the latest spyware for this platform, known as OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan Horse, or simply the DNSChanger Trojan.

Rated as a highly dangerous threat, this spyware changes your DNS records and redirects your Internet traffic to various malitious sites that can infect you with even more viruses, as well as to pornographic sites.

To see if your computer is clean, all you have to do is download DNSChanger Removal Tool from here and perform a quick scan. Good luck!