Ramblings, opinions, and general meanderings from the Deep South

Monday, October 25, 2004

May I have your attention please?

Next time you sit there smugly in front of your PC and tell the virus definitions that are trying to update that they should "go away", please come back here and read this article -> Plague carriers. Or read this article at Reuters. How about the Boston Globe? It's very short and to the point. Shoot! Just go to Google and pick one out.

Over to the right there is a list of links. Spybot Search & Destroy, Ad-aware and AVG are listed here. Just click on the words and you'll be on their respective pages. There are also buttons for Spybot and Ad-aware in the ads listed below the links. You can click on them and go to these sites. USE THESE PROGRAMS! And puh-lease! Don't install them and think that's it. YOU HAVE TO UPDATE!

If you are using McAfee's for a virus protection program, the you are a very sad, sad creature living in a fantasy world. Please remember this:
Norton's Antivirus = OKAY!
Norton's Internet Security or System Works = VERY VERY BAD JUJU!

Norton's Antivirus is a resource hog and is wayyyyyy busy running in the background. Not as good as AVG, but it does work.

After purchasing my Toshiba laptop the first thing done was removal of the year's subscription to Norton's System Works. BTW, getting said garbage off that machine was about like removing spyware. Then the network and internet capabilities were configured and AVG was downloaded.

None of my PCs have ever had a virus!! Not one! Almost daily infected PCs are attached to this network in order to scan them with one of my computers. No, there's no need to worry about the virus infection jumping across my network because it is protected!!! Is yours? According to the links listed in the first paragraph, probably not.

Spyware? Hanging is too merciful for the sorry bastards involved in this horrible, evil business. Now I must go find my medication...maybe next time I'll tell you how I really feel.

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
-Albert Einstein

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