[ Sunday, March 20, 2005 ]

12 Comment(s):

Comment by  Starbuck, at March 20, 2005 9:38 pm  :

Hmmm. Maybe I should've stuck with bullet points.

Or not even put finger to keyboard in the first place... snore...

Comment by  3rd daughter, at March 21, 2005 12:56 am  :

lol... looks to me like you know a little more than naff all about it... are you an IT type person? I've often wondered what you do to earn a living... i'm a bit of a stickybeak really...

Comment by  Starbuck, at March 21, 2005 12:50 pm  :

A stickybeak? What the flip's a stickybeak?! Sounds like the basis for a dodgy joke that I really shouldn't write during work time (lucky escape there!)

But nah, I'm certainly not what you'd call an IT type. Though the search engines are my friends...

But I can exclusively reveal that what I do for a living (now that the time-machine is kaput and the band have collapsed) zzsssssszst is szzt sztxzxx zsssszss for the tszsszzs sztsztsz sztsz sztsz szt zstst zsszt click

Comment by  3rd daughter, at March 21, 2005 1:10 pm  :

stickybeak is aussie slang for a nosey person who sticks their beak in where it is not wanted :)

nice job description. i'm sure i know someone in the same field...

Comment by  Aiden Truss, at March 21, 2005 2:33 pm  :

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Comment by  Aiden Truss, at March 21, 2005 2:34 pm  :

Oh the joys of hacking the registry - I'd forgotten how much fun it can be!

Someone recommended the freebie ap 'Antivir' and I've had it running on my machine for about 3 months now without any hassle. If you need a decent replacement for the Trend stuff, I'd highly recommend it.
:)

Comment by  Starbuck, at March 22, 2005 3:52 pm  :

Cheers, Astolath. Should Trend ever realise that they're not (and have never) got any money out of my Dad (curse these EOL dates!) then I'll shove it on his machine.

I think I might have tried installing it on my father-in-law-to-be's machine once. It failed to install, but then it would, knowing how fracked his machine was.

It was THAT machine that Norton Internet Security has brought to a standstill. What a bunch of crack. Rather than just getting an AV for use with his lovely free Zonealarm firewall as we'd advised, he went and got the full security package. That failed during install as well. It failed badly. I spent most of a Sunday sorting out the bastid. Grrr.

And now its on there, the machine takes at least 10 times as long to do anything. Rrrrrubbish. And I don't trust its "smart" firewall one bit.

And if that's not bad enough, it's attitude stinks. I've read about AV companies nurturing users worries for cash, but this wears its "politics of fear" on its sleeves. What's with all this "breaking news" style pop-ups advising of threats spreading across the internet? Who the frack needs to know? Why try to worry the poor user? Why not just quietly do your job without messing with our heads?

Truly the Dubya of Security products - corrupt, bloated, cynical, exploitative.

Comment by  The Saturnyne, at March 22, 2005 3:52 pm  :

Aye, and i hear good thingies about the FREE AVG antivirus, too!

Outta the paid ones, me mates never had any prob's with the "Kaspersky" one. Doesn't even slow his machine down.

also, there's this site:
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm

which is an online antivirus scanner. I use it a lot.

S.

Comment by  Starbuck, at March 25, 2005 7:34 pm  :

Yeah, Kaspersky does me very well at work.

AVG used to be great, apparently, but I hear its gone all paid-for.

GREED! (as the Addams Family pinball machine used to say)

Comment by  Starbuck, at March 30, 2005 9:04 pm  :

Well, the problem's been back, and my Dad (by proxy via me) is now a proud user of AntiVir.

Marvellous.

Comment by  Anonymous, at July 03, 2007 3:26 am  :

silly sheep, go ahead and mock antivirus software but I highly doubt you can protect your system without them. I use Trend Micro simply because it's much better at finding the lil buggers than Norton or Mcafee

Comment by  Starbuck, at July 11, 2007 1:17 pm  :

Yep, but Norton or Mcafee are hardly recommended. Norton Security especially is one of the most cackhandedly coded bits of, erm, cack I've ever had the misfortune to ruin a machine with, at least when it comes to older machines on older OS's.

Likewise, and confusedly, Norton Antivirus is bad, but Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition is good. What's all that about, then?

Your best bet - use Firefox with the NoScript extension, get a free AV product (no need to pay for scaremongering rubbish where you are effectively just paying for its marketing budget), get a decent free firewall, plus a heap of other - wait for it - FREE security apps. And don't be an idiot when opening emails. Sorted.

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