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The way of the web.
Tuesday, March 14th, 2006 11:58 pmAh, the ways of teh Intarweb.
I receive an email from a subscription service informing me of my new password. I hadn't asked for a new one, but it seems someone has been logging in pretending to be me, hence their email. This caused me some consternation since it being a utilities site I only access it from this machine - not even my laptop goes there because I can't be arsed to try out clever stuff on a machine with a tiny keyboard and no proper mouse. This all made me a little worried that there might be spy ware or malware or some such naughty on my machine. But how might this be? I have a fully paid up subscription to Norton, and it performs a scan once a week and gets rid of the odd bits and pieces that make it through the firewall.
Oh, innocent youth!
I downloaded and installed the latest Ad-Aware, something I've not bothered with for about a year since I installed Norton, and a couple of other hunter-killer utilities. Well, it seems that quite a lot gets past Captain Norton. Two-hundred and seventy high risk files and seven registry add-ins for a start. Well, Ad-Aware got rid of them for me (to the point that when I booted the machine up tonight it complained that it couldn't find nail.exe, a remnant of the Aurora spy ware I had to lock down as I couldn't get rid of it! Now I have to remind myself how top stop the PC from trying to load it.
Suggestions welcomed.
Adding to my bemusement, I find that having left a comment on sideshow.com's website, I have been awarded a prize for leaving the 7,000th entry. Well, it's a bit rubbish (a really tatty action figure), but I see on e-bay that they go for about £20, so I figure "why not, I can always flog it". Except that having discovered that I live in the UK, Sideshow want me to pay $33 shipping, VAT and import duties. Hmm. That works out about oh, £20. I don't think so; if it was something really cool, maybe. But it is an action figure that makes Barbie look cool.
"Free" doesn't mean the same in the US as it does here, apparently. I wonder if that's true in all contexts?
I receive an email from a subscription service informing me of my new password. I hadn't asked for a new one, but it seems someone has been logging in pretending to be me, hence their email. This caused me some consternation since it being a utilities site I only access it from this machine - not even my laptop goes there because I can't be arsed to try out clever stuff on a machine with a tiny keyboard and no proper mouse. This all made me a little worried that there might be spy ware or malware or some such naughty on my machine. But how might this be? I have a fully paid up subscription to Norton, and it performs a scan once a week and gets rid of the odd bits and pieces that make it through the firewall.
Oh, innocent youth!
I downloaded and installed the latest Ad-Aware, something I've not bothered with for about a year since I installed Norton, and a couple of other hunter-killer utilities. Well, it seems that quite a lot gets past Captain Norton. Two-hundred and seventy high risk files and seven registry add-ins for a start. Well, Ad-Aware got rid of them for me (to the point that when I booted the machine up tonight it complained that it couldn't find nail.exe, a remnant of the Aurora spy ware I had to lock down as I couldn't get rid of it! Now I have to remind myself how top stop the PC from trying to load it.
Suggestions welcomed.
Adding to my bemusement, I find that having left a comment on sideshow.com's website, I have been awarded a prize for leaving the 7,000th entry. Well, it's a bit rubbish (a really tatty action figure), but I see on e-bay that they go for about £20, so I figure "why not, I can always flog it". Except that having discovered that I live in the UK, Sideshow want me to pay $33 shipping, VAT and import duties. Hmm. That works out about oh, £20. I don't think so; if it was something really cool, maybe. But it is an action figure that makes Barbie look cool.
"Free" doesn't mean the same in the US as it does here, apparently. I wonder if that's true in all contexts?
