It's been a while since we have had a virus scare. Authors of viruses have moved their attentions to malware, which take over the infected pc's and allow them to earn money using these infected machines. Viruses provide no payload for their creators, making them less attractive to develop.
While the prevalence of this new virus is extremely low, W32.Deletemusic, is a sobering reminder that we need to keep our anti-virus software updated. The virus spreads via attached drives like flash drives or other removable media. It will really hurt if one gets infected and this virus does it's things, finds all your mp3's and deletes them.
Is your anti-virus up-to-date?
Related post : Anti-Virus (16 March 2007)
Showing posts with label anti-virus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anti-virus. Show all posts
Monday, August 6, 2007
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Eish offers free virus scan
Again, something for nothing just for being a regular Eish!! reader.On the 5th June Eish!! reported on free online virus scanner from Panda Software called Nanoscan. Well today from Carlos from the Nanoscan is offering Eish!! readers the ability to scan for viruses directly from the blog.
If you didn't have a reason to bookmark Eish!! before, you do now. The widget will be permanently on the right hand menu bar of Eish!!. Thanks to Carlos, it a great idea to reach out to the bloggers, it's sure to get them extra exposure for their many other security products.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Correction - Thanks to Panda Software
Thanks to Carlos at Panda Software for clearing up my statement below taken from the previous post "Scan for viruses online for free", and teaching me a bit of Spanish at the same time.
Original final paragraph :
"Finally, as a negative, it really irks me when the designers and owners of software and websites allow themselves to get lazy. This is a great utility which provides a fantastic service. So why the incorrect spelling in the analysis url http://www.nanoscan.com/analisis.aspx?"
Carlo's reponse :
"Thanks for publish the NanoScan´s information in your blog, but only one puntualization: the URL doesn´t include incorrect spelling, it´s write in spanish ;-)"
It always leaves a warm fuzzy feeling when a company takes the time to correspond with you before, during or after a posting that refers to one of the products.
Kudos to Panda!
Original final paragraph :
"Finally, as a negative, it really irks me when the designers and owners of software and websites allow themselves to get lazy. This is a great utility which provides a fantastic service. So why the incorrect spelling in the analysis url http://www.nanoscan.com/analisis.aspx?"
Carlo's reponse :
"Thanks for publish the NanoScan´s information in your blog, but only one puntualization: the URL doesn´t include incorrect spelling, it´s write in spanish ;-)"
It always leaves a warm fuzzy feeling when a company takes the time to correspond with you before, during or after a posting that refers to one of the products.
Kudos to Panda!
Monday, June 4, 2007
Scan for viruses online for free
Here's a nifty online utility you need to bookmark
Panda Nanoscan at http://www.nanoscan.com/ is an online virus scanner. It scans your local pc for around 962 749 viruses, trojans and spyware. Being online and professing to be mega-quick it obviously does not scan your entire hard drive, so it targets key files, directories and processes only.
I ran it on my family pc, which can be a real dog with this type of thing and it completed a full scan (quick setup excluded) in 80 seconds. I am happy to report nothing found.
You still need to keep your offline realtime virus checker(refer here post on free Anti-Virus packages). Although this utility is not going to check files as they are copied onto your hard drive, downloaded or as they arrive via an email, it's a great way of running a double check when you suspect malware to be the cause of a problem you are experiencing or if you are are unsure of the credentials of a pc you need to work on.
It does not disinfect should it find any malware, however it does offer another more comprehensive TotalScan should you wish to do so.
Correction : Thanks to Carlos at Panda Software for clearing up my statement below, and teaching me a bit of Spanish at the same time.
Original final paragraph :
[Finally, as a negative, it really irks me when the designers and owners of software and websites allow themselves to get lazy. This is a great utility which provides a fantastic service. So why the incorrect spelling in the analysis url http://www.nanoscan.com/analisis.aspx?]
Carlo's reponse :
"Thanks for publish the NanoScan´s information in your blog, but only one puntualization: the URL doesn´t include incorrect spelling, it´s write in spanish ;-)"
It always leaves a warm fuzzy feeling when a company takes the time to correspond with you before, during or after a posting that refers to one of the products.
Kudos to Panda!
Panda Nanoscan at http://www.nanoscan.com
I ran it on my family pc, which can be a real dog with this type of thing and it completed a full scan (quick setup excluded) in 80 seconds. I am happy to report nothing found.
You still need to keep your offline realtime virus checker(refer here post on free Anti-Virus packages). Although this utility is not going to check files as they are copied onto your hard drive, downloaded or as they arrive via an email, it's a great way of running a double check when you suspect malware to be the cause of a problem you are experiencing or if you are are unsure of the credentials of a pc you need to work on.
It does not disinfect should it find any malware, however it does offer another more comprehensive TotalScan should you wish to do so.
Correction : Thanks to Carlos at Panda Software for clearing up my statement below, and teaching me a bit of Spanish at the same time.
Original final paragraph :
[Finally, as a negative, it really irks me when the designers and owners of software and websites allow themselves to get lazy. This is a great utility which provides a fantastic service. So why the incorrect spelling in the analysis url http://www.nanoscan.com/analisis.aspx?]
Carlo's reponse :
"Thanks for publish the NanoScan´s information in your blog, but only one puntualization: the URL doesn´t include incorrect spelling, it´s write in spanish ;-)"
It always leaves a warm fuzzy feeling when a company takes the time to correspond with you before, during or after a posting that refers to one of the products.
Kudos to Panda!
Friday, March 16, 2007
Anti-virus
With food inflation expected to hit 20% this year, here is something that may help extend the monthly stipend just a little.
There are some good free anti-virus packages available for download.
I have been using Grisoft's free version of AVG anti-virus for some time now. What made me think of sharing this in today's post was a comments made by well-known columnist and blogger John Dvorak (www.dvorak.org/blog) endorsing AVG in the popular This Week in Tech podcast earlier this week. (www.twit.tv)
If he uses it, with all his resources available, hey, it can't be all that bad.
So my tip for the weekend, surf over to http://free.grisoft.com and download yourself a copy. Not only is it free, but it uses way less resources when scanning and updating in comparison with the other commercial competitors, particularly Symantec's Norton anti-virus.
Another open-source option is Clamwin (http://www.clamwin.com/), I have given it a short-term test, and the only frailty is the lack of real-time scanning.
Bye for now!
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