Posts by Peter Smith

AVG tags ZoneAlarm as Trojan

That figures

I stopped using AVG when it became so bloated that it wanted half my hard drive and three-quarters of my processor (Ver.8)

Norton went the same way first, followed by many others. Why are AV progs harder to control than your average virus?

Carpetbomb bug tarnishes Google Chrome

Is there a rootkit?

No. It's a scheduled task that runs when the machine is idle and is called GoogleUpdateTaskUser. Very sneaky. I found the Apple one when I was nosing about too - that must have come with Safari. I'm starting to wonder if MS is as bad as we all think. I just wish I could get Dreamweaver for Ubuntu and I'd be outta here.

Is there a rootkit?

Google's new uber-browser seems to run the same sort of PC takeover s/w that spyware runs. In spite of appearing nowhere on MSCONFIG Google updater has assumed a life of its own on my machine and spent the day trying to 'phone home. Next time I sample Google's offerings I'll do it on a VM.