Proofreading the TruXter Tech News post, I looked at the advertisement on the page because it caught my eye.
I noticed something fishy.
I thought Google was the sworn enemy of Microsoft. But as I see here it pays Google to advertise its phone sales area.
You see that?
Hahaha , holy crap.
Now Yahoo!?
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Recently in the news, the Bush Administration has been trying to push Congress for some new legislation to grant cell phone providers immunity for the illegal phone surveillance of U.S. citizens.
Surely, it is bad enough that the present administration, with the help of NSA (National Security Council), has used “The War of Terror” as an excuse to spy on citizens in the first place. However, the possibility of this new legislation would facilitate it to being perfectly legal for them to eavesdrop on you.
I like to think that this is of great importance to our people. One may say, “I don’t have anything to hide. I’m clearly not a terriorist. Why does it matter?” It matters because it is an infringement upon our rights, specifically our right to privacy, and our civil liberties that are awarded to us through the Constitution and our Bill of Rights.
I find it very interesting that the top 2 cell phone companies participating in this deception are Verizon and AT&T (formerly Cingular). One must ask the question, “Why?”
It is difficult to fathom, as a customer of Verizon, that I am contributing to their ability to do this to people. Just recently, in going through some email, I found a message from an organization, Democrats.com, that had this topic as their subject line. Through curiousity, of course, I opened it. It was exposing the facts of the conspiracy with regard to Verizon and AT&T. Additionally, it was an advertisement from a cell provider, Credo Mobile, that prides upon not being a part of these activities. Credo is offering current customers of the “Top 2″ a free camera phone and also agreeing to pay the required early termination fee to the previous carrier.
So it seems, the only remaining questions, how does their service, cost and coverage areas compare to the networks of Verizon and AT&T?
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After years of not touching Dr.Web, I could not remember, in full, why I did not like it. I could not remember why I did not trust it. It has been at least five years since I tried it and someone I see is trusted by quite a few people recommends it. I gave it a go. Well the first download is 14 MB. Quite tiny and happens in a blink — although the file downloaded was actually just a tool to download the actual program. After the download was complete and the install was nearly finished, it asked for a verification key (I did not have one). So the program allowed me to press a button and have a key automatically inserted. Why? Dunno. The scan seemed pretty smooth; I didn’t see the scanner get hung up on anything. The list of files being scanned was pretty steady. Boots and reboots of the system were smooth and there was no delay or hang time from Dr.Web.
I consider any program that you have to find a program from a second party to remove to be malware. If the program does not allow me to see the size of the actual install until after it is finished installing (I had to navigate to the folder it was contained in), I consider it to be deceptive.
Granted, this is a workplace computer. I am not the first employee to use this computer and formatting it is not an option. I did find traces of Limewire once installed on this machine, so you should have a pretty good idea how beat down this machine is because of misuse. Since this program found nothing and ran smoothly, I decided to break out some of the tried and true programs: Ad-Aware, Spybot, and A-Squared. All three found something, and no, it was not all cookies. Ad-Aware found what it labeled as a w32.novarg.a@mm (aka MY DOOM) file. A-Squared found a few hijackers, and Spybot found, like, 60 things.
Now here comes the issue. I decided I do not need this program to start when I start my computer. Since it never found anything, I was not impressed enough that I could leave it on the workplace computer throughout the trial period. I went to un-install Dr.Web, but it wasn’t happening. The un-install actually tries to install the program again. I went through the whole step of seeing if it would say “before we can install you must un-install; would you like to un-install?” Never happened. Full install right over the current.
So I did a Google search on it. The best information I found was sad and scary, all in one. Delete all registry entries and then go back to the directory of install and delete all signs of Dr.Web. I really do not suggest you do that. I mean, it did not damage this machine. I booted fine afterwards with no errors, but if you are new to ‘regedit,’ stay out. It is much safer that way.
After 14 years of doing this online and nine years on local networks (before the Internet), you would think I learned my lesson. Well, I have learned that sometimes you just have to try stuff and be prepared to put things back together. Good thing I do and can.
Here’s an alternative.
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