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tamaranth ([personal profile] tamaranth) wrote2010-03-11 11:13 am
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More virus nonsense

Victim #1 = me: still having fits of cold/shaky/must sleep NOW. And achiness and disinclination to do anything. Which is starting to get me down, so I am being Determined today.

Victom #2 = laptop: am slowly removing 'XP Internet Security'. Why did I suspect it from its very first alarmist lie? Because the message was spelt wrong. Note to software (and virus) developers: I am congenitally incapable of ignoring bad spelling, and likely to assume that mis-spellings and poor grammar indicate malware.

[identity profile] ianmcdonald.livejournal.com 2010-03-11 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
ooooooh. I had that as a 'Vista Security' thing. Feckin' nightmare: it shut me out of the executables and I had to go create a set of entries for the registry using a fresh account. The horror the horror!. Speaking of mis-spellings, you are aware you wrote 'victom' in that para?

[identity profile] marypcb.livejournal.com 2010-03-14 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
if you need AV, use Microsoft Security Essentials; free, good and not heavy on the resources