MSE News: All web users urged to run anti virus check

asininity

I personally think running these sites from something that cant be infected by these things is a danger. You wouldn't find out until your users started getting infected.

vaporate

I use Norton 360. Just renewed it for 1 year.

Twopints

MSE_Martin wrote: »

Hi folks
All back and bristol shaped now.

This is now my new favourite saying. I guess it means it's all gone t*ts-up

leanneee

I was on the site at work yesterday on two separate occassions and both times I recieved a system notification stating that a Virus had been detected and deleted (Bloodhound.Exploit.193) gave me quite a fright and I called mum to tell her not to go on here but everything seems fine today. I'm glad to see it's resolved!

gooner045

Apple Releases Snow Leopard 10.6.2, Fixes 40+ Bugs

bankslayer

gooner045 wrote: »

Apple Releases Snow Leopard 10.6.2, Fixes 40+ Bugs

Yep, only 40ish - that's quite remarkable; the average Windows service pack must be into the thousands. To be fair, Windows is much more bloated and complex, which is one of the problems it faces.

Anyway, enough of this. Platform wars are pitifully childish and in this case it has detracted from some serious security issues, not to mention discussion about the weak and incomplete advice that users are getting fed via the media.

Get yourself over to slashdot and indulge in a thorough techo-spanking.

Leopard

Where have those winsome pictures of Marty J and asisinity gone?

Whenever Edinburghass pokes her patronising nose into a thread it then gets butchered.

asininity

What happened to my post??? Memories pretty bad but can just about remember posting about the thread having done its job and free-for-all etc.

M4RKM

MSE_Martin wrote: »

It's all web users - whatever operating system. While this particular trojan may be for one type of system - that doesn't negate the wider point. And while Mac's (and i've a lesser knowledge of Linux - but most of its users are very techie savvy anyway so less of an issue) have traditionally been less targetted, there are still viruses out there.

As for what Mac and Linux users should be doing "everyone should do an updated anti-virus scan".

Martin

The MSE style of journalism however does seem to be verging on the daily wail style as well more and more so... I'll get my informative tech news elsewhere to be honest..

M

Leopard

I found this in another thread but feel it rightly belongs here, too. (Particularly now. )

It depicts the IT software and hardware upon which it is believed this site is run and administered.

The original poster of it is a kindly soul and I'm sure he won't mind me duplicating it for the purposes of wider MSE enlightenment.

Marty_J wrote: »