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My sister-in-law called last week. She was being prompted to renew her anti-virus – the machine had a long expired Norton AV on it – but the renewal prompts had “Cyber Security” on them. A quick web search set off some warning bells and I suggested she just turn off the PC and drop it off As geeks, we’re often asked for help with choosing and installing antivirus software for friends & family members. We all have our favorite “packages” and we all trade thoughts on the latest/greatest free AV offerings. For instance, until this week I’d settled on the free version of Avira AntiVir coupled with Microsoft’s Windows Defender. Those two together seemed It probably doesn’t surprise anyone that I installed the RTM release of Windows 7 on a machine at home this weekend. In fact, I put it on a machine that’ll get some use by other family members as well just to get a feel for how it handles “non-geek” usage. Now, if I’m just testing I recently mentioned that I was trying out the free Comodo Internet Security suite. I’m about done with the initial evaluation so I reckon I should share some initial impressions. The free version touts firewall protection, antivirus and proactive security. It seems to do a pretty solid job at keeping an eye on what’s going I wasn’t going to write a Conficker post, but I had so much fun playing with nmap today that I caved in… This afternoon I decided that it would be prudent to make a quick scan of the corporate networks for signs of Conficker-ness. I knew from Dan Kaminsky’s recent “Taming Conficker” that I should be Continue reading Conficker, Nmap and What I sent to the Office |
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