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Termyn8or -> RE: Virus Warning ? (11/29/2010 11:42:25 AM)
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A buddy of mine in the business had a different approach. Multiple harddrives. He used Win 2000 advanced server and once loaded he would clone it. All files and such are on a second drive. The cloned drive with the OS is not connected. Somebody would have to damn good to infect that !
I'm not sure if I asked - is there a way to prevent the PC from reporting the browser version ? If there is, and these different browsers have different vulnerabilities wouldn't that impede infection ?
Alot of people swear by AVG and they make a good case. I have it on the other PC and will put it on this one shortly. One thing I heard about it, make sure you get it from AVG dot com. I guess at some point there was a counterfeit version out there that was actually a virus. Real AVG though, as I understand it (?) doesn't really depend on a virus list, I'm told it uses heiruistic (sp) reasoning to sniff out the critters. Therefore it doesn't need updates every two weeks or whatever. It's very unobtrusive unless it finds something. The only problem I've heard of is that sometimes it detects something when you're trying to install certain things, like the Paltalk software. Judging from what Paltalk does, it seems logical.
If you recall I mentioned that this box was just reloaded. It started shutting down randomly, but then it did it once after the reload. At that point I turned off ALL power saving features in Windows and it hasn't happened since. Could a virus or something have affected the BIOS and caused some type of error there ? Everything else seems fine.
Now I wonder if something like that happened to my old PC. I attributed it to bad filters (electrolytic capacitors) because it was to the point where I could hear noises in the audio when it was accessing the harddrive. But that doesn't mean I was right. Even MEPIS Linux had a problem running off the CD - it said "Something Wicked Happened". Then it said something about the system clock, or some such.
Incidentally, bash Linux all you want, but really if running off the CD it has got to be one of the most secure things going. I mean it is totally read only at that point. Of course there are drawbacks, like that it takes forever to do anything off the CD, and the fact I don't really know how to run it. I did leave the HD in and ran MEPIS off CD, and eventually figured out how to access the HD from it, but it was a big PITA.
Of course the whole issue is a PITA. This can affect that, that can affect this. Even in consumer electronics (brownwares) software and firmware problems are on the rise. That's right, almost like a BIOS flash needed sometimes - for your frikkin TV set ! Alot of them now have USB ports, for a thumb drive. Even a phone can get a virus now. I'm waiting for it to happen to cars, they might just start wrecking themselves. (though crazy drivers out there might meet the definition of a virus - for the highway)
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