Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Just as a follow-up from the previous post, Symantec have released the removal instructions for W32.Downadup.CYou can find them hereThe removal instructions are part automated using the Antivirus software, but also require the editing of the PC's registry and the usual system restore issues.It is the registry edits that mean ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
I don't cover viruses here much, but after reading about this in a few places a few things stood out.This is an article from PCWorld that describes a notification from Symantec.Downadup is a virus that execute instructions from an infected machine. Apparently, the new variant is more hardened against anti ...
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
A great piece by Tom Pullar-Strecker from The Dominion Post talks about the auto debit of credit cards for renewals of their anti virus software.He even says Website TechWeb has quoted former Symantec consumer-group chief EnriqueSalem saying it was also one of several ''revenue-generating''strategies to ''pump up the consumer group's ...
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
Well the upgrade is done, my Fantastico updater won't work, so I have to do it myself.Wordpress is a great blog system and the upgrades are not too frequent.Great instructions here and the files are hereEverything worked a treat (at least publicly) so upwards and onwards!
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Well version 3 of Firefox is now available, We have been using it since Beta stage and it is significantly better than v2 (*which is significantly better than IE7)After resolving the memory leaks of v2, Firefox 3 is now a must have for all Internet Surfers.As a web development company, ...
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