Viewing Articles with the tag: virus
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…
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How Much Do We Trust Shared Online Docs?
01.Jun.08 | 4 Comments
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 [...]
Virus’d - The Follow-up
08.Feb.08 | 1 Comment
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 [...]
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 [...]
