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Hello World!
Well I figure that since I am the only one reading this blog right now I may as well make the first post something I am interested in. How much MS Windows sucks. I am currently using Ubuntu as my flavor of the month in linux and i had forgotten how much of a total pain in the ass windows is. One of the execs at my office called me upstairs yesterday to investigate the always ominous "Internet problem". What I encountered was a pc so thoroughly infested with viruses, spyware, key loggers, and various other malware that i wanted to wrap a condom around the mouse.
Turns out he fell for the old "need a codec to view this porn video" scam a few months ago and his dell lappie has now become the fucking burning man festival for the Zlob trojan. I have never seen so many different variants of this particularly nasty bug in one place.
After attempting to update spybot, (he had installed it but not run a scan in a "few months") I noticed that it appeared that Zlob was blocking spybot from updating its definitions. Then we tried ad-aware. No luck. After closing ad-aware spyware alerted me to about 50 different reg key changes.
At this point I decided it would be easier to just take off and nuke the site from orbit, only way to be sure. I procured his re-install disk and took his lappie for the weekend. Well I am now 4 hours into the re-install and I can safely say that I will never use another MS product voluntarily. My mind is spinning with drivers and updates and restarts.
He is a really nice guy and did offer to take me and the wife to dinner for my trouble so I don't mind doing a little geekery for him. Well I will be updating as I go so stay tuned!