SYMANTEC ANTIVIRUS BLOWS
Symantec Antivirus is completely ineffective against the latest Fake Alert trojan, which their software (mis?)-identifies as Trojan.FakeAV!gen17. "Easy Removal." Yeah, right... If you suddenly have a little red "X" in your taskbar which pops up alarming security warnings about the Netsky virus, or something called "Safeguard@ EasyClient" keeps trying to install itself, or smss32.exe appears in your startup items even after you've manually disabled it, then congratulations: You're Infected!
Follow this procedure to get rid of the Fake Alert trojan. When you're done, let Symantec know how you feel about their expensive, , ineffectual cycle-hog.
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C++ A Garbage Heap of Ideas - my favorite quotes from Coders at Work.
Joy Restaurant Secret Menu - a translation of the secret menu from the popular Chinese restaurant in Foster City (updated April 2009 with corrected translations)
Dr Dobb's Jumps the Shark - a nerd journal heads out to sea
Buffalo Chest - a useful piece of vocabulary you'll want to use at least once a day
ObscuraLucida - an experiment in homebrew video surveillance
Pydot Clusters - drawing clustered graphviz nodes in Python
Who is Robert Yu?