Microsoft’s Security Essentials, which you can get directly from Microsoft at http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/ seems to be a pretty good anti-virus program. But be warned there is a fake program with a very similar name making the rounds. The fake one is called Security Essentials 2010. Avoid that one. If in doubt, don’t download from a link [...]
“How did my computer get infected?” Acrobat Reader!
On February - 17 - 2010
We used to fear floppy disks for transferring viruses and other nasties to our computers, then emails, maybe USB sticks, even web sites. According to rather thorough report at ZD Net, Malicious PDF files comprised 80 percent of all exploits for 2009, due to flaws Adobe Acrobat Reader. Essentially that means that most infections that [...]
