The usual hodge podge

Posted on November 1, 2005 No Comments

The battle against Winfixer/Virtumundo was rejoined today - and handily won. May they rot in heck. Afterwards, gave Panda’s Activescan a shot. Pretty nice, reasonably fast and the price is right. Worth a look if you’re looking for an online scanner of the free flavor (I’m assuming windows only…)

Finally broke down and registered for the full version of Windows Secrets newsletter today. I’ve subscribed for quite some time to the freebie version and enjoyed what I’ve seen, but always wondered what else was in the paid bit. So, I ponied up a spot of cash and now have access to all the past issues. I think Mr. Livingston and crew do a great job with this thing — give it a look, even if just the free versions.

Interesting utility of the day: Restoration. A nice and fast (and free) windows utility to restore deleted files. Found it as I was looking for something like it to uh… recover accidentally deleted files from a USB flash drive (oops! :$). Works just as well as some of the commercial products I’ve used in the past. I’ve added it to the USB Key “Emergency Kit” I carry around (seems like a good future blog article…)

Check out this article (found at slashdot). Web versions of Office I guess I can follow, but online versions of windows/msn type content seems odd. I’m probably missing the point and should go reread TFA I guess.

(couple hours later)
Just to show my bravery, I’ve installed Beta 1 of IE 7 on my freshly installed XP SP2 machine. Yup, I’m brave. So far… I rather like it. Still getting used to where the menu went, but the tabs are intuitive and it “feels” faster. Granted, I timed nothing before the upgrade, so can’t quantify that…

Tags: antivirus, office-live, security, spyware, undelete