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Doctor – Is Your Mac Vulnerable to Viruses?

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1. Hope Rachel Hetico RN MHA, on December 27, 2011 at 2:38 PM said:

   Yep – Some docs Have iPad Fever but Is There A Cure?

   Clinicians are excited about what iPads can do for practices. But if you’re shopping for a medical tablet, dispassionate analysis is in order.

   In case you’re questioning reports of a tablet epidemic in healthcare, take a look at stats from a QuantiaMD survey. Thirty percent of doctors use a tablet device, compared with just 5% of U.S. consumers, the online physicians’ forum said.

   Of tablet-using physicians, two-thirds, equivalent to 19% of all physicians, use their tablet in a clinical setting. Another 35% of doctors surveyed say they’re “extremely likely” to use a tablet in the next few years to help their practice. That sounds like a fever to me.

   http://www.informationweek.com/news/healthcare/mobile-wireless/232300337

   Hope Rachel Hetico RN MHA

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2. Darrell K. Pruitt DDS, on March 17, 2014 at 10:48 PM said:

   MalWare is BadWare
   [Good think it’s never been a problem in dentistry, right?]

   “A small-town rural Colorado hospital has identified a virus present on its computers that collected and encrypted patient data in a hidden file system. As a result, some 5,400 patients are being mailed breach notification letters today” – Erin McCann, Associate Editor, Healthcare IT News, March 17, 2014. (See: “Small-town hospital gets hacked.”)

   http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/small-town-hospital-gets-hacked

   Kevin Johnson, chief executive officer and principal security consultant at Secure Ideas, tells Healthcare IT that the chances the data was accessed by an outside entity are “very high.” He says, “It would be unusual for malware to store the data and not either send it out or have it retrieved.”

   Darrell K. Pruitt DDS

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3. Darrell K. Pruitt DDS, on September 19, 2015 at 4:38 PM said:

   Is McAfee malware?

   This morning, I received this warning from a friend: “For those of you that are using the free AVG antivirus software, it is noted that AVG may be selling your browsing history to advertisers. You judge.”
   
   http://www.komando.com/happening-now/326447/popular-free-anti-virus-may-sell-your-browser-history-to-advertisers?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=notd&utm_content=2015-09-18-article_1-title

   In addition, McAfee Security notified me this morning that their (uninvited) scan detected malware, and that I would have to purchase a $50 subscription in order to find out more.

   I scanned my computer with Webroot, to which I subscribe, and found nothing.

   Are AVG and McAfee malware?

   Darrell K. Pruitt DDS

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