Yesterday I was working on my zd8000 laptop, which is essentially a desktop replacement. It’s been getting too warm lately, even with the addition of a laptop desk, a chiller pad, and removing the battery. Yesterday was a bummer day when the machine started shutting down and wouldn’t boot up without shutting down. I figured it was a heat problem, so I got out my can of air and proceeded to gag myself with blowing the laptop out through the vents and fans.
Back in 2005 I made the decision to stop being self-employed and started looking for full time employment. That is when I discovered my lack of college degree had really come back to bite me.
I pulled Symanted Antivirus off of yet another home user’s computer when it failed to find all the parts of a trojan dropped on a new home client’s computer. One of the things I’ve noticed is that Symantec will zap a trojan…right after the dog-goned (G-Rated word) trojan drops its payload. Like that’s gonna help. This time the user had Trojan.Bankem.B on their system and Symantec failed to find ANY of the files even with up-to-date virus definitions. Fortunately AVG found the bad boys and so did Spybot Search & Destroy.