there are a bunch here
http://livecdlist.com/purpose/windows-antivirus

I've had better luck finding rootkits with bitdefender and kaspersky than Hiren, but taking a look at their page it looks like they've shored up the rootkit detection (MalwareBytes is pretty good at that - didn't have any luck with rootkitrevealer when I tried it, though - it failed to detect a rootkit that bitdefender found, and I knew the machine was rootkitted as well as the rootkit name - I also pulled off 3 yet unidentified virus variants off of that box and submitted them, and they began appearing in antivirus software within 2 days). I also have my trick of finding rootkits while windows is running, as most don't hide file complete (usually I find a registry entry with HijackThis and then go to the location and start typing in the name and hit tab - if I see the file but don't see it if I just do dir filename, I know I'm working with a rootkit and probably not an ordinary virus). I prefer to have antivirus software remove viruses and rootkits, but can do it by hand if necessary (would rather have it magically go away rather than poking around system files for hours to see what all it corrupted).

That is if you need to have accountability, such as selling or providing to a customer (this would be the latter - IT provides for its "customers" which are end users to them) but I think our developers use notepad++ for editing files more than any other program, so there are exceptions, and let's face it - if that tool breaks, there's always notepad. It is on our site license approved software download page even (for free and commercial tools we have a site license to download and self install), so it has passed through upper management and legal, but I'll admit the one there is an old GPL-2 licensed version - I don't know if it hasn't been updated because of legal concerns about GPL-3 or they just haven't gotten around to it, though (I know GPL-3 libraries are forbidden, but not sure about apps).

In the case of HijackThis you are responsible for your own accountability, since it doesn't remove anything unless you tell it to, and a good IT person will back up the registry before making any changes to it (and know what is and is not a legit program).

actually, I'd think it would benefit Apple more than Microsoft
Steve Jobs pre-death said he "wants to go thermonuclear on Android"
Android runs using Java on Linux
SCO owns some interest in UNIX (apparently) and claims to own Linux and is suing for $699-2798 for a license
an Android phone even starting at $699 is already D.O.A. because you can buy a friggin' iPad for that
Apple has the second largest marketshare for smartphones behind Android, so has the most to win - Microsoft has a measly 2%.
ergo an SCO win is a win for Apple, though it would benefit Microsoft as well... until Apple sues them into the ground for swipe to unlock and other copied features...

Greeks were screwed by spending way above their means with social services and taking on debt rather than pay for them. America is heading down the same treacherous path by not accounting for total obligation in debt calculations - anywhere from 20 to 70 years from now (depending on income, population growth, and retirement age, not to mention who you ask - some Republicans say 20 years, others [not sure of political affiliation] say 70), Social Security alone will consume 100% of the budget. America says they're only 1x their income in debt, I say they're at least 7x (because I look at taxed income, not the income of the nation). I'm terrified of where America will be around 2040 without additional taxes and serious spending cuts. I'm even contemplating dual citizenship for when it happens (and having my ancestors driven from their homeland gives me a free pass back, though I'm not great at the language).

You mean God with a big G because god with a little g implies there is more than one, and we seem to be talking about Christianity by the subject.

And it is easy to explain - Satan changed the records to disprove God. I mean, heck, he did that with the dinosaurs and cave men and stuff, why not birth records?

I'm just quoting what the Jehovah's Witnesses told me - it seems anything that proves an error in the Bible can be disproved by Satan's meddling.

Well if you trust Bible thumpers, he gave us free will, and one of the downsides of free will is you get to make bad choices and good choices. If you put it in terms of jelly doughnuts or a tasteless fiber bar, you make the same sort of choice - one is better for you and one the one you may crave.

The problem I have with the Christian Bible is it says some things I feel are morally really bad are actually good.
Question 1.
Bob brutally rapes and beats Carol to an inch of he life, but she manages to pull through. His punishment is:
a) imprisonment
b) death by stoning
c) he must marry Carol

and the correct answer is: c.

Americans were outraged when that happened in Iraq, but they are just following the Qur'an, which has the same source.

Question 2.
Joe divorces his wife Lisa and marries the widow Irina while Lisa still lives. According to the Bible, this is
a) OK
b) is adultery and both Joe and Irina should be executed by stoning
c) is OK because Irina is a widow.

Correct answer is: b. Joe is still married in God's eyes and therefore has committed adultery.

Question 3:
The widow Sasha has sex with the unmarried Grog. They need to
a) marry or be executed for adultery
b) it is OK as long as Sasha doesn't get pregnant
c) it is OK as long as Grog doesn't have sex with any other women.

The correct answer is b, though there is some ambiguity (it is more like 'b' as long as Grog doesn't get caught and Sasha doesn't turn him in and Sasha doesn't take any money for the service).

Many have both - but passing the hat makes more money.

Something I learned playing bars from other bar band veterans - first you take a jar (or hat) and put a few dollars in it (a 5 spot or 10 spot if you can), then (preferably) have someone go around with the jar asking for tips for the band, but passing is acceptable if not (just make sure the jar moves around the room). A passed jar always makes more money than a stationary jar and if someone is holding it and asking, you make even more (I actually came up with the trick of hiring an audience member to stump for our band - preferably someone beautiful and outgoing and a friend if possible, and it worked so well we made it a practice).

I'd feel safe burying one in my backyard, but not a conventional reactor, just an MSR. Google has expressed interest in putting them near their data centers, as well.

Too bad SFRs are getting a lot more industry attention. Not that SFRs are bad (unless you think Bill Gates backing one is a good reason), they just aren't as safe - Sodium burns in air, explodes in water, and is slightly radioactive. SFRs are one of the simplest reactor designs, more similar to existing reactors than something like LFTR, and can burn nuclear waste nearly completely, so they have some advantages. Oh, and prototypes are being built anywhere but America for the same reason a LFTR won't be built here - NRC fuel reprocessing rules to prevent proliferation make it nearly impossible.

Actually, since we have a working reference design, a new MSRE-like small reactor (with some fixes for technological improvements) could be online in as little as 2-3 years if we had the will to do so, but that would include some serious concessions by the NRC because they don't allow reprocessing on site due to proliferation fears, even though the fuel could be tainted to make it not only bad for proliferation, but dangerous for weapon makers to handle.

But the problem is nobody is willing to build them and people are unwilling to back a technology they see as faulty, even though technologically it is like comparing a car engine to a gas turbine (basically the same thing in, same thing out, right?). The power companies don't want them because they already have a working design ("why fix something that ain't broke?"), despite safety flaws. The anti-nuclear people (most are liberal Democrats who think it is an environmental threat, even though it is one of the cleanest energy sources) say that it isn't a thorium reactor, it is a uranium reactor (since the thorium is converted to uranium before fission) and therefore creates the same toxic waste as uranium reactor. Ignored is safety, the 3% waste, the fact that 83% of that 3% is non-toxic in 10 years and most of the rest can be recycled, and LFTR and some other thorium reactor designs can actually run as uranium reactors and burn the nuclear waste we already have. To me, something that has built in passive safety, 99% fuel efficiency, can be shut down when the energy isn't needed, and can run on garbage (which is what nuclear waste is, essentially) sounds like a solution, but call me a fool...

Politicians have forgotten about anything other than LWR/PWRs. Why? because in the 1960s, they were concerned with only one thing, breeding nuclear fuel for nuclear weapons, so they killed off designs that did that poorly like MSRE. Our needs have shifted since then, but with the government only seeing accidents with LWR/PWR designs they are scared off when they hear nuclear reactor, despite other designs being massively different and sometimes much safer.

My guess is ARPA continues to use the money on stuff like better batteries, but I agree, this should be $0 until the budget is balanced - in fact, I would take it one step further - is at a surplus to pay back debt and start funding social security and medicare for the future. I personally wish they'd do research on the types of Gen IV reactors that burn nuclear waste instead and turn a storage problem into an energy solution. That said, there are a lot worse things for the federal government to waste money on.

And speaking of balancing the budget, why not close some of the loopholes that people use not to pay taxes? Let's make Senators fly coach instead of first class, stay in hotel rooms not suites, not get lifetime pay for doing a job even after they stop working, etc - I'm sick of footing their bills for luxury living - they can foot their own bump to first class. And even though the wealthiest people pay 70% of taxes, 50% of them don't pay - figure that out. We could use a bit of austerity here, starting with cutting perks to the rich who don't need those perks in the first place and are abusing power to have them. And I completely disagree with taxing the rich more - fix the tax code and collect taxes already. I realize that isn't an overnight process, since the damn thing is a wall of tomes (over 70k pages), but start with some big ones and work your way down.