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Apr 21 2009

Stay away from the new Rogers anti-virus

Posted by paul

I followed the email from Rogers (my ISP) that told me they were dropping Symantec and I should install their new anti-virus offering. I should have known better, but I don’t know what came over me. It’s my own stupid fault, and I’ll never get those two hours back.

The email told me that I “need to upgrade to our NEW Rogers Online Protection before June 30th, 2009″, and that “Rogers Online Protection replaces the [Symantec] security suite” we previously received for free, for being a Rogers customer. It sent me to rogers.com/upgradesecurity which bounced me to a page from which I downloaded the installer.

Just as their email promised, “Upgrading to the NEW Rogers Online Protection is free and easy” other than having to reboot, which is not an unusual experience when I’m running Windows.

However, after the reboot, things were far from easy. Read more »

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Feb 25 2007

Catching up again

Posted by paul

Tags: canada, food+drink, security, websites, work

It’s been a crazy week (moreso than usual) but there were a few things I spotted online that I wanted to comment on / just link to:

John C. Dvorak says (in an article in PC Magazine) that we should stop using Auto-Reply but clearly he’s wrong. Read more »

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Jan 28 2007

IM secure – how about you?

Posted by paul

Tags: security

I’ve installed an encryption plugin for gaim, my favourite IM client. Read more »

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Jan 12 2007

Software Inspector

Posted by paul

Tags: security, software

I found a new tool yesterday: Secunia‘s Software Inspector. They’re a well-known Danish software company, and this tool is a handy scanner which will identify software installed on your (Windows) PC and warn you of critical updates, as well as point you at where to download updates (although some links are broken).

I recommend all Windows users check out this tool and install all security patches ASAP – if you have to run Windows, at least try to reduce the holes in it.

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Sep 02 2006

This Is What A Terrorist Looks Like

Posted by paul

Tags: security

Thanks to “munawar” for posting “This Is What A Terrorist Looks Like” – I’ve been saying this for ages but I’ve not got around to digging up all the links to support a post, so thanks for saving me the effort.