retro virus
Jan. 27th, 2010 02:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kirkcudbrightToday's xkcd is apropos. My Windows box recently got fuxxored by malwarez ("Total PC Defender"). Twice. Scrubbed all traces of it, but the system still wasn't happy - random reboots while sitting idle, non-functional browsers. ClamWin antivirus didn't find anything. Finally ran three different malware scanners on the system - each found a different set of things (which doesn't really inspire me with confidence), but everything seems to be happy now. Fingers crossed.
I'm running Linux more for day-to-day stuff, but I still need Windows for things like Photoshop and InDesign; and OpenOffice frankly doesn't do a great job rendering Word documents.
If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd be wondering how much Microsoft has invested in the "security" industry.
I'm running Linux more for day-to-day stuff, but I still need Windows for things like Photoshop and InDesign; and OpenOffice frankly doesn't do a great job rendering Word documents.
If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd be wondering how much Microsoft has invested in the "security" industry.
