'Tis the Season To Watch For Viruses

Posted by infogame 16 year(s) ago (12/29/2008).

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Seems like every product comes with a free virus these days. Samsung just warned that the XP install CD for their picture frames come with the W32.Sality.AE virus "included"...I guess that would be considered pre-installed. For a listing of the models:
http://www.networkworld.com/...

Sad these days that one cannot even buy a brand new hard drive without worrying about virii these days: http://gizmodo.com/...

(Thank you, Gizmodo.)

Many have reported the abundance of viruses in consumer electronics these days: http://www.foxnews.com/...

This concerns me more when a Rich Mogull, security editor of Apple news site TidBITS, says, "he doesn't recommend that the average Mac user install antivirus software because of the low-level of malicious software seen for Macs at this time." : http://news.cnet.com/...
Security through hope-nobody-notices-me?

Well for the average gamer there are free antivirus software available. AVG offers a free verson http://free.avg.com/ or if one does not wish to use the processor cycles for an always-on antivirus, Trend Micro offers the web-based HouseCall virus scanner http://housecall.trendmicro.com/