I still use AVG, but thankfully not on my Win7 machine.

I had to switch an XP machine from Avast when a mandatory update from Avast caused problems on loading Windows a few months ago. Could only boot to safe mode, and uninstalling Avast cured it. Reinstalling did exactly the same thing so I dumped it for AVG

Work machines are all on Norton, which I must say has gotten better in versions 2010 and 2011. /me *DUCKS*

My own experience with USB viruses was pretty thankfully not horrible, but annoying and disheartening. I brought a USB key full of pictures to a local store to have them printed, and when I got back home and put the stick in I was infected. Nothing serious, and easily detected and cleaned, but still annoying. I called the store to let them know, and asked to speak to someone in IT. After I while I talked briefly to a tech, let him know what I experienced, and suggested they turn autorun off, as it wasn't necessary. Shame on me, because two weeks later I went to print more pictures from USB, and yet again my key was infected. This time I had turn off autorun for USB (different and harder to turn off than for CD I found) and found the infection before it spread to my desktop. No I have what another user suggested in a directory named autorun.inf with all the flags on (system file, read-only, etc). Works for me. What I wondered about at the time is what one can do when you know of a virus vector, have informed that infected party, and they take no steps to prevent it. Are there places out there where knowing you have a virus, know you're spreading it, and don't do anything is illegal?

Mmmmm.... Hold on a sec while I imagine a Beowulf cluster of ASM-135's Aaaahhh... Thanks

Those responsible for the error have been sacked

As another Comcast business customer I couldn't agree more. The service is stellar when they give you a direct line to the local sales and service guys. I've never had it go down, always had speeds as advertised, and the phone services just works. However, as a previous residential customer of Comcast in several different locations around the USA, I would have to say that they treat the residential customers like dirt. Good luck getting your service as advertised, and there's nothing you can do if it isn't. I've seen net connections throttled, packet sniffers drop torrents, and even TV service that's gotten choppy.

I'm betting it's printed with LSD-based inks!

Sure would make it fun to play with whatever flashy version of aero they'll include in Ultimate!

How about the asshole who gave the asshole gassing the Kurds the gas in the first place?

Oh right, that would be Donald Rumsfeld who completed that deal during the Reagen administration, not Richard Cheney.

But if the people behind reCaptcha are really doing this well, then they remember the words that you refreshed. If a word gets refreshed enough then a real human can go to the real book and figure out the meaning of the word.

That's really gonna help keep the game out of the office LANs isn't it?

One of the great things about the first 'Craft was being able to install and play either single-player or LAN-based multi from a copied disk. How many offices lost hours and hours of productivity to that feature?

On a related topic - I'm not too happy about the battle.net multiplayer for another reason. Why connect to some distance server for all that traffic when the overhead could be kept on the local LAN for strictly local gameplay? Especially when the game "checks in" on installation, which presumably would prevent rampant theft.

"Windows cannot find 'ln'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the Start button, and the click Search"

huh... For the MAJORITY of operating systems out there your technique doesn't work

go figure!

***WHOOSH***

Hint: on campuses there's at least 50% Mac users.

[citation needed]

I don't know what campus YOU'VE been on lately, but our local campus has FAR more Windoze boxes running around.

Those responsible for not welcoming those that would not welcome our robotic soldier overlords have been sacked

Well thank you clarifying my point, as we appear to be in COMPLETE agreement on this, and you have just added more to my comment. What I had said was that DOWNLOADING music was fine, but that using a BitTorrent client to do that also typically makes those files available for download by others. Even if you're download them ethically (i.e. you already own the license through ownership in another format) you are still distributing those files unless you're just LEECHING.

It is that SEEDING activity that will get you unless you're careful enough to not distribute.

Note : I don't download music I don't already own a physical copy of, but some of that material is on 8 or 4 track tape that I bought in 1974, I've format switched it via the internet. The music industry insists on a license to listen, not ownership model so be it. If you own ANY physical copy of the material the you are entitled to the material in different formats. If they want to change their policy to ownership of the single copy then I will change my behavior to reflect that.

The problem with that point of view is that the MAFIAA doesn't care if you're DOWNLOADING music at all. It's what files you are making available for download that they will be looking for. Unless you've got your torrents set to leech-only, then you're also making the music you own a physical copy of available for someone else to download, and THAT is the copyright infringement they're trying to stop.