learnedax ([personal profile] learnedax) wrote2004-03-03 12:47 pm

Reason #26 why I like my Mac

Spent about two hours this morning cleansing [livejournal.com profile] tpau's computer of a couple bits of malware, added to her hour+ last night. About 300 bits, actually. Needed three different virus-scrapers, a lot of websearching, and some incidental registry hacking. Clearly virii have been domesticated for business purposes all too effectively. Of course spyware is well-known, but I hadn't noticed how incredibly locustlike it had become of late. Please to be stop using Microsoft now.
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[personal profile] tpau 2004-03-03 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
we are not on any such lsits, msotly since i have never heard of htem. if you knwo of any, pass it on. being behind a router firewall and a isp firewall helps. having norton conencted to outlook helps. none of hte things he or i deleted were viri, jsut ads. they were annoying but not detremental to my machineor others...