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Swatted
22.Jun.08 | 2 Comments
A co-worker at work managed to pick up a trojan the other day – no clue where or how, but our crusty old version of Symantec AntiVirus picked it up and quarantined so it wasn’t a complete debacle.
Now, I’m not a trusting person and tend to assume that where there’s one, there may be more…
Traditionally [...]
Virus’d
06.Feb.08 | 11 Comments
Here’s how it all started. A simple little message in Live Messenger from a co-worker:
hey is it really you on this pic? http://msnprofiles.ms.funabc.de/viewimage.php?=billy@email.com
(of course I’ve munged the URL and email a bit, but the email address would be your Live ID address)
From there a day went from pleasant to crappy pretty quickly.
In the Beginning
One [...]
Active Virus Shield Rode Off into the Sunset
15.Aug.07 | 6 Comments
Don’t you just hate it when you find something that you like and have been recommending has been quietly discontinued?
While on vacation, I noticed the computer that my folks have was a bit out of date with antivirus — to the point where it wasn’t updating signature files anymore. Unfortunately, I ran out of time [...]
Active Virus Shield
01.Jun.07 | 9 Comments
Over the past couple years, I’ve mentioned a few different free antivirus options. We’ve talked about Avast, AVG and Antivir. All have their pros and cons.
For family and friends I typically go with the Free AVG if they don’t have it on more than one machine at home. If you do, you [...]
