[gameprogrammer] Re: OTP: deleting porn

On Thursday 26 August 2004 07.10, Alan Wolfe wrote:
> get adaware from lavasoft.de and also an anti virus program and
> keep windows up to date to stay ahead of the crackers.

You wish that was sufficient. Indeed, it helps a great deal, and I 
recommend Adaware too, and some serious ("big name") virus scanner. 
Note that the most important point with virus scanning is that the 
database is up to date and properly managed! I'd recmommend staying 
away from less known products, unless they're hooked to one of the 
major virus databases. I'd also recommend something with some form of 
sandboxed code analyzer, to stand a slightly better chance if you're 
attacked by something not yet in the database.

Personally though, after the last few weeks of manual adware/malware 
slaying on the Windoze boxen here, I'm seriously considering 
investing in a heavy duty "live" virus scanning firewall, such as 
this:
        http://www.astaro.com/php/statics.php?action=asl&lang=gb#

(If anyone knows about similar better and/or lower cost solutions 
without VPN and other stuff I don't need, I'm all ears.)

So far, I've never had a Linux machine compormized, but I don't intend 
to wait around until it happens. And either way, I'm sick and tired 
of wasting time and CPU power keeping those bl**dy Windoze machines 
clean. The current situation is plain ridiculous, IMHO. Is MS pulling 
our collective leg, or what!? :-/


> if your system has been majorly compromised, it could be swiss
> cheese by now, very slow and full of holes and a reformat might be
> the best first action to take.

Good point. It is important to realize that it is entirely possible 
for a virus to hide the actual file system away from virus scanners, 
so that they can't see or do anything after the virus is loaded! 
Don't know about the state of things on Windows nowadays, but I've 
seen it in action on the Amiga many years ago. Scary stuff...


Speaking of which; anyone know of a boot CD based virus scanner, or 
something along the lines? Would be handier than moving drives around 
to remove stuff that won't go away after booting...


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