::headdesk::

[quesarah]

Dude, sometimes I think having an IT helpdesk is fairly pointless at a large company like mine. They've installed various types of antivirus software, patches, security updates, ad nauseum. And I'm a fairly savvy user in terms of not doing stupid shit when I'm browsing website or reading mail. But not everyone else at the company is, and I have to truck files back and forth from the machines that run our equipment to my desktop.

Lately I've noticed that my desktop is getting a little buggy for no good reason -- yes it's old and has limited RAM but I baby it when I use memory-hog applications for work. I should not be having the problems I'm experiencing. After going through IT and getting nowhere, I decided to download my preferred free anti-virus and anti-adware applications and just do a little check of my system.

Ecccchhhh. The shit I found on my desktop, you wouldn't believe. I mean, you'd think I'd have been able to at least look at a little pr0n in order to get this much crap on my PC. Jayzus H Christmas.

Comments

[buddleia.livejournal.com]

my preferred free anti-virus and anti-adware applications
You couldn't point me in the direction of those, would ya?

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Ad-aware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/) by Lavasoft has a pretty good free spyware removal tool.

And AVG (http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1) by Grisoft is a good free antivirus app.

[buddleia.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. :)