* Posts by Andy

5 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Aug 2007

Cnet blogger squadron discovers long lines at Apple retail stores

Andy
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What's this about?

2nd paragraph to find out what this "story" is about?

Trend Micro's CEO says 'AV industry sucks'

Andy

Bad use of the term "Open Source"

Appart from Clam AV , none of the other well known free AV packages are open source. And Clam Av is primariy used by Linux email servers rather than Windows end users.

AVG scanner blasts internet with fake traffic

Andy

Effort better spent on patching...

The poster who cited LinkScanner saving the day, the article also mentioned..

"People who’ve visited the website over the last week need only panic if they are running a version of Microsoft Windows that hasn’t been patched or a version before Windows 2000."

Looks like users are buying all these AV products, that use resources (locally and on the Internet), but not patching their systems?

AOL tosses Netscape into the dustbin of history

Andy

AOL Netscape Popups

A must read

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Blake_Ross_on_Popup_Suppression.aspx

Pirated Simpsons movie traced to phone

Andy

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"and you have a high-quality TV covering an entire wall"

Trigonometry.