geek malware Q

[Numpty]

Two unrelated words separated by a number is best, i.e. Tom69Sheep

I would love a peek a your therapist's notes.

[scotspine]

I would love a peek a your therapist's notes.

yes, i spotted that one but thought it best not to say anything given sy's current suspicions (read 'persecution complex') of me. dunno quite what emot to use either come to think of it..., i'll try

[Spacecadet]

AVG let me down a couple of months ago


I'm now trying Avast.

I'm using Microsoft Security Essentials (on windows 7).
Compared to AVG and Avast it actually seems to be the most active in flagging suspicious files, programs and connections.
At the same time it is also the most discrete in terms of hiding away and only popping up when it needs to alert you.

[Moscow Mule]

Any clever ways of downloading all your emails ( and more importantly their attachments ) ?

You used to get free pop access with a standard hotmail account (so you could download messages to a pc). Don't know if that is the case know or not though.

I think outlook express will still allow you to connect even if you've got a newer account, and you should be able to bulk copy your folders to something local from there.

[cojak]

I'm just about to install Spybot, that flags any suspicious activity quite well.

[cojak]

And of course there's FF3.5/NoScript to stop it from happening again...

[Tarquin Farquhar]

This also leads onto the semantics of is it 'virii' or 'viruses', but that's a conversation to be had with a pedant.

There is no reason whatever why it might be virii.

The original Latin word is second declension neuter. 2nd decl neuter nouns (in fact all neuter nouns AFAIK) normally form a plural with -a, which would suggest vira.

But 2nd decl nouns ending -us normally form a plural with -i, so viri (not virii).

But really it's an English word, so the plural should be viruses.

[cojak]

<makes note not to argue with Tarquin on use of the English language. Or Latin, for that matter...>

[Tarquin Farquhar]

I'm using Microsoft Security Essentials (on windows 7).
Compared to AVG and Avast it actually seems to be the most active in flagging suspicious files, programs and connections.
At the same time it is also the most discrete in terms of hiding away and only popping up when it needs to alert you.

discreet

[Sysman]

Is it likely they have cracked my password from scratch, or have I entered it into a dodgy lookalike webpage they directed me to ?

Perhaps it's time to tighten up my banking passwords

There are brute force password crackers out there, though I have no idea if they work with hotmail.

Careful on the banking passwords - Brits use the same password for everything