{"id":162,"date":"2005-07-01T05:12:41","date_gmt":"2005-07-01T08:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=162"},"modified":"2005-07-01T17:08:52","modified_gmt":"2005-07-01T20:08:52","slug":"2-hours-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"2 hours later…"},"content":{"rendered":"

S<\/span>o McAfee just finished scanning: over 100,000 files, almost 2 hours and 2 restarts later. About these restarts later, but first its<\/em> catch, because that’s what you’re all curious about: I mean, me, the guy who laughs about the panic virusses and trojans spread, because I can remove them all by hand because I<\/em> know where to look for them. Well.\n<\/p>\n

McAfee found 20 virusses. All of them duds<\/em>. The first 17 were so-called Byte Verifier Java trojans<\/a>. They affect the Microsoft<\/em> VM and since I don’t use that VM and I’ve used Firefox (almost) from the start of using this computer, I can only imagine that they must have creeped in via whatever program that forced me to use IE. Or maybe they creeped into my system while I was downloading Firefox the very moment I turned on the computer for the first time.\n<\/p>\n

There were two files tightly embedded in RFC 822 type e-mail messages. Since these need to be extracted first by a mailer that does support MIME decoding (and message parsing), these didn’t even hurt. I was aware of possible virusses matches too because, these<\/em> were messages forwarded to me by Alfons so I could use them as examples for a live<\/em> presentation.\n<\/p>\n

The last one? It was presumably in a dll that comes with an nsis<\/a> (the famous Open Source Installer) install. That DLL? Innocent, as McAfee acknowledged<\/a>.. Hey, but thanks for removing it anyways! I like reinstalling stuff like that ad nauseum.\n<\/p>\n

While I actually like the (bare-to-bones) install of McAfee [it’s just a plain virus scanner and it doesn’t feel like Symantec bloat], downloading updates requires a two-time computer restart: after finishing the download and after actually installing the new update. Not good, but not bad at all either: Instead of a 3 month Symantec-type-grace-period-and- then -pay-for-an-extra uh virus update, McAfee comes with a year out of the box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So McAfee just finished scanning: over 100,000 files, almost 2 hours and 2 restarts later. About these restarts later, but first its catch, because that’s what you’re all curious about: I mean, me, the guy who laughs about the panic … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}