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July 27, 2008
Cleaning Windows
We had the car windows up and the heater on last night, driving in Melbourne. It's nice to be able to put the words "rain" and "Melbourne" in the same sentence. The car windows got wet but I'm not sure that there was enough vigour in the rain to actually clean up the film of dust and gunk.
Whilst waiting for 37 musical competitors to finish their playing I got to thinking about Charles's poke at Windows and Stephen's response about keeping Windows in Steady State.
We've come a long way since the days of The Brain - and I guess our advice to keeping our PC secure would change.
On the other hand, some classic concepts of malware requiring a vector still applies, as my alert about the Mal/Autoinf-A and the W32/SillyFDC-H explains.
So many technologies are now in the soup that rabid IT specialists drink (full and partial virtualization, denying root/admin access, Host Based Intrusion Prevention System) as opposed to the classic anti-virus scanner. Trouble is, the general PC using public isn't aware of the state of the game.
Maybe it's time for a brief Knol on the basics of computer security. Meanwhile, I'll leave you with the a reasonable but old list of links.
Posted by Anandasim at July 27, 2008 03:24 PM
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