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The Anti-Virus Virus
Relates to Security and The Office
I have found in recent weeks one major cause of interruption has been support assistance to clients whose computers are malfunctioning. In a strange twist of irony, several recent calls have been for indicative viral infection which have actually turned out to be anti-viral infection. There have been no trace of the common imprints left by Sasser, GaoBot and other variants of these deviant worms. Instead the problems appear to have arisen as a result of infectious automatic updates of the anti-virus software which have left required libraries absent from the system. Catch-22 ensues. The AV software has to be disabled for the computer to run, but then it is not possible to retrieve any further repair patches through the automated system. The vendors rarely have any support information on this! I am not going to name names except to say that for three clients I worked with three different products. All three of them a household name - you guess!
As a result of this I decided to delve deeper into the AV product lines on the market. The product that seemed to come out on top in most comparison charts was Bit Defender. I have a client test-driving the professional version with integrated firewall right now. I would be quite keen to join in if I could make the time to hard uninstall all the stray components of my current AV! An evaluation version is available for 30 day trial.
Posted on Jun 20, 2004 at 03:34:44. [Comments for The Anti-Virus Virus- 0]
Finding The Time
Relates to Peregrinations and Blogging
No I haven't discorporated! Just, in the past few weeks I have seen such a short supply of time, that keeping up with this weblog was futile. The world of the web developer chasing standards is certainly a varied and very busy one! Then there is the added requirement of managing my personal business affairs, a full time occupation in itself before even getting down to coding.
I have also been toying with the idea of replacing my blogging software with the excellent Wordpress, but having come so far with my own code, I have decided instead to improve my own system (integrating features like Trackback and Ping) and this has taken up much of the time I would normally dedicate to blogging. Then there has been the hammer on the head scenario to come up with a entry for the GAWDS Redesign Competition. I had hoped that the pressure of the encroaching deadline would provide that sudden flash of inspiration, but my head is awash with code at the moment. There is still time if you haven't got an entry in yet!
On top of all this, Euro 2004 is underway and, dare I say it, BB5 is providing countless hours of addictive emotional voyeurism!
Actually, brief aside. I have been somewhat disappointed with the cumbersome and inaccessible website supporting BB5. Due to the sluggish load time I decided to take a tour in my Lynx browser, my first stop being the popularity page - a feature I run to before placing any bets with friends. Flash dependant interface, a total non-starter :(.
Anyway, back to the present, or lack of present! For I feel like I am constantly living in the future at the moment, or more accurately a circular dimension of time - one plain, one point, one moment. Enough of the metaphysics, here follows some catch up blogging from recent days…
Posted on Jun 20, 2004 at 03:33:39. [Comments for Finding The Time- 0]
