I know I’ve been pretty quiet on all of my blogs the past few days. I’ve been spending an inordinate amount of that time in front of a computer, but not one hooked up to the Internet. Fact is, the particular laptop I’ve been working on for a friend, had no business being on-line until…
As a quick update to the post about Internet bottlenecks. Our networking folks spent a couple of weeks doing random traffic captures, both inside the firewall and having the ISP do it outside the firewall. Nothing really significant was found, no malware tying up bandwidth, no one streaming video all day long, nothing at all…
That was what I thought when I saw this post about McAfee’s screw up with the definition files they released Friday morning. It’s completely unacceptable that those def files got released to the public, and that for five hours, the folks who were doing everything we tell them to do in terms of keeping udated,…
We’re down visiting the in-laws today and I’ve spent a few hours fixing their PC and cleaning it up some. They got caught with virus definitions that fell ever so slightly behind the speed of new malware showing up and wound up with a pretty nasty trojan that killed their Internet access, disabled their AV,…
Some scary stuff about where the next generation of spyware and malware might be headed in terms of stealthiness. All in this weekend’s edition of Spyware Weekly. Let’s hope the good guys are working to combat this as fast as the malware folks are working to create it!
Just saw this post over at PC-Doctor, where he talks about DiamondCD RegistryProt 2.0, a tool that keeps an eye on your PC’s registry and let’s you know if any malware tries to make changes to it. I might have to check that out, if nothing else it’s another layer of free protection for your…