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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 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 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  February 6th, 2008 |  Tags: antivirust, google-talk, kaspersky, panda, symantec, trend-micro, virus, VirusTotal, windows-live-messenger |  11 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 While on vacation, I noticed the computer that my folks have was a bit out of date with antivirus — to the point where it wasn’t updating signature files anymore.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 Continue reading Active Virus Shield Rode Off into the Sunset August 15th, 2007 | Tags: active-virus-shield, antivirus, avg, CrossLoop, kaspersky, mcafee | 7 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 |
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