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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 Now here’s a clever idea. Since the Conficker virus likes to block access to certain sites, a fellow named Joe Stewart from the Conficker Working Group created this slick little eye chart. Each image is hot-linked from the represented site. Thus, if you have any images blocked, you might have Conficker – and from the diagnosis 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 I received a comment on my recent Firefox 3: Most Visited post the other day and it’s still sitting in the moderation queue as I wonder what to do with it. Most comments are easy to divide between spam and useful, but this one has caused me to stop and ponder. It’s a link to a I mentioned a couple days ago that we had a small virus outbreak at the office this week. Thought I got it all cleaned up Wednesday night, but I ended up chasing it a bit more last night as well. Tip: Turn off the Windows System Restore thingy before chasing viruses. Turns out ours got saved  February 8th, 2008 |  Tags: antivirus, google-talk, im, ntop, security, symantec, virus, Windows, windows-2000, Wireshark, xubuntu |  One comment |
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