Just a quick note that this blog may be a little sparse in the near future - the comics and pop culture news site Newsarama had or still has a search redirect trojan on their main page or their adserver. Search 'Newsarama, virus' for details. The virus was nasty and undetectable by all my various anti virus and anti-malware software. I fought a holding action against it for the last few weeks and finally Malware Bytes did an update that detected and killed it - but since it had replaced an essential system file ms.dll the result was a dead computer.
So I'm using my girlfriend's machine but I don't want to monopolize it. Therefore expect a slightly diminished output until I get a new machine - probably in the next week or so.
The first thing I'll be doing on the new machine is adding the NoRedirect and NoScript addons to Firefox - two useful security features I wish I'd had all along that I strongly recommend you all add to your own browsers.
Carry on.
Friday, January 14, 2011
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