http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/avoiding-a-hacking-nightmare.html Science Blog from Freelance Science Writer David Bradley Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:14:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/avoiding-a-hacking-nightmare.html/comment-page-1#comment-214 sciencebase Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:57:12 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/avoiding-a-hacking-nightmare.html#comment-214 Having worked my way through this book and assuming I already knew everything Hely was telling me, I checked the functioning of the antivirus software on my machine and discovered to my horror that it couldn't even spot an attempt to run the virus test file! I quickly switched to the recommended software in the book, which is free and found not only the test virus but several latent trojans sitting in a backup of my email folder. So, be warned even if you think you're software savvy and have full protection that might not be the case. Having worked my way through this book and assuming I already knew everything Hely was telling me, I checked the functioning of the antivirus software on my machine and discovered to my horror that it couldn’t even spot an attempt to run the virus test file! I quickly switched to the recommended software in the book, which is free and found not only the test virus but several latent trojans sitting in a backup of my email folder. So, be warned even if you think you’re software savvy and have full protection that might not be the case.

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