About Rogue Antivirus

[Tamas Rudnai]

If anyone interested on what is "Rogue Antivirus", why do they make
such like that and how to prevent ourself fooled and/or infected by
those, there is a paper and some videos about this subject:

http://www.symantec.com/about/news/resources/press_kits/detail.jsp?pkid=istr_rogue_security

Tamas
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In message <492f1420910190401i5107b256pbc4ada0c430688d5@...>,
Tamas Rudnai <tamas.rudnai@...> writes
>If anyone interested on what is "Rogue Antivirus", why do they make
>such like that and how to prevent ourself fooled and/or infected by
>those, there is a paper and some videos about this subject:
>
>http://www.symantec.com/about/news/resources/press_kits/detail.jsp?pkid=
>istr_rogue_security
Hmm, not sure I'd trust Symantec to guard my 2 year old's used nappies.
Their Norton Internet security programs are singularly dreadful about
detecting and stopping this sort of rubbish, I've cleaned up four
machines in the past month for people who trusted their software.
>
>Tamas
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>/* www.mcuhobby.com */ int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s="/*
>www.mcuhobby.com */ int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s=%s%s%s,
>q=%s%s%s%s,s,q,q,a=%s%s%s%s,q,q,q,a,a,q); }",
>q="\"",s,q,q,a="\\",q,q,q,a,a,q); }

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[Philip Pemberton-2]

Clint Sharp wrote:
> Hmm, not sure I'd trust Symantec to guard my 2 year old's used nappies.
> Their Norton Internet security programs are singularly dreadful about
> detecting and stopping this sort of rubbish, I've cleaned up four
> machines in the past month for people who trusted their software.

I went to one of the BCS (British Computer Society) meetings a few
months ago and they were handing out copies of NIS 2009. A chunk of the
CD is doing sterling service filling a gap in the leg of the dining-room
table.

Problem + piece of otherwise useless junk = solution.

I've been using AVG for a while, but even that isn't perfect. At this
point, I've adopted the "Just Use Linux" philosophy. So far that's
working pretty well for me (I've got a VirtualBox VM set up to run the
Altera Quartus development software and MPLAB).

Even the film scanner and my old Wacom A6 ArtPad work fine... no "x64
drivers are not available for this device" bull-crap. (I've got one of
the older-generation MPLAB ICD2 hockey-pucks which only works on x32)

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