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  • The best anti-virus..

    .. is the one that can be installed and forgotten about thereafter. For home users, Microsoft Security Essentials is best and this is why.. Of all anti-virus programs that I have tried, it is the least invasive. It can be like this because it works in conjunction with the Windows firewall and doesn’t...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Mon, Jan 23 2012
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  • Website advertising – stay on side PLEASE..

    This is the Softpedia page where you can download the XP Zune theme. It is representative of many pages on the Internet. The searched title is along the top, but look at what is below and around the download button for the theme!! What hope is there of the average computer user keeping their computer...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Mon, Oct 11 2010
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  • AVG v MSE

    Scenario A computer running Windows XP SP3, fully updated and running AVG 8.5 also fully updated. There is a REGCURE popup which will not go away and, not unsurprisingly, the uninstall for REGCURE throws up an error message. AVG 8.5 appears to be blissfully unaware of its presence and makes no attempt...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Mon, Apr 26 2010
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  • Malware using EULA to block detection

    Spotted this at ZDNet http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5944208.html RetroCoder, makers of Spymon are threatening legal action against Sunbelt Software. The British company wants Sunbelt , maker of CounterSpy , to stop flagging its SpyMon software as spyware . RetroCoder charges that Sunbelt has violated...
    Posted to Mark Dormer by Mark Dormer on Fri, Nov 11 2005
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