Comment Why doesn't Google just have people play Farmville (Score 1) 218
....then everyone gets all of your private information...and your friends' private information....and their friends' private information
Comment Re:That's Australia for you. (Score 1) 361
...I was going to post "Well at least you can distill alcohol legally" and then I remembered that's New Zealand. You guys really *ARE* screwed.
Comment At least Linux users can... (Score 5, Informative) 332
Submission + - What good is a Hacker Safe badge?
WarmBoota writes: While doing exam research, I stumbled on a test prep site that offers sample questions. The site sported a "Hacker Safe" badge and proudly claimed their files were spyware, adware, and malware free. Surprised at a 7mb executable file for 15 sample questions, I scanned it before opening with ClamAV and found that it contained a Trojan. I've been trying to explain this for over a week to McAfee (the certifying party in the Hacker Safe deal) while the file remains undetected by "Daily Scans" to the site.
Meanwhile the fine print is slimy enough to disclaim any and all responsibility.
So I ask you — does the Hacker Safe badge mean anything to you? Why do sites pay protection money to companies that don't offer any real value beyond a shiny jpeg image?
Comment I'm going to agree with the slimy assessment (Score 4, Informative) 928
I installed AVG on my mother-in-law's machine because she had an expired trial version of some other AV software. It was great for a while, but they must've had a change in direction/managment. Because all of a sudden they started with popups to get a full paid version of the software - even uninstalling the product didn't fix it. I had to surgically extract crap from the registry and program files folder to finally get rid of it.
Avast or ClamWin for me - no more AVG.
