[dba-Tech] The latest AVG anti-virus

Susan Harkins ssharkins at setel.com
Sun Jan 28 10:33:30 CST 2007


Well, I definitely feel like there's something running in the background
because my system is terminally slow all of the sudden. :( 

You know, this stuff just really aggravates me. I'm nobody -- just a
freelance writer working from home. I don't make a lot of money, I'm not
competing with anybody, but I still have to deal with this crap -- this has
cost me a lot of time and time is money. And, it's looking more and more
like, I'm going to have to buy some "new" product to fix things up. 
Some people are just sick -- putting this stuff out there. 

The Panda scan caught the rootkit, so in the end, I'll probably have to buy
it to get rid of it because of course, they didn't get rid of it for free --
just found it for me for free. ;(

I'm telling ya -- nice work if you can get it... what a racket. 

More time, more money... to protect myself -- it just seems insane. 

Susan H. 

Rootkits are bad. Sony got into a lot of trouble over those a while back.
They're software that is essentially hidden from the OS, but that will run
anyway. They included some on some of their "copy protected" CDs to stop you
being able to rip them. Once someone found out about them, it was only a
matter of time before the Virus Writers started using them.




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