Friday, May 06, 2005

one gigabyte

Yep, they finally done it. Yahoo! has matched Gmail's watershed 1GB (gigabyte) of e-mail storage. According to the splash screen here: "By early May, all free Yahoo! Mail users will receive an e-mail storage increase to a whopping 1GB. That's enough space to keep thousands and thousands of e-mails - so you may never have to delete those important messages again!"... I'll stick with G-mail.

(seen in a restaurant) GUYS: No shirt, no service - GALS: No shirt, no charge.

Thursday, May 05, 2005

trojan horse

Q: I was looking at a friend's computer yesterday that was running slow and installed AVG antivirus. After updating AVG found 7 trojan horse files and deleted them but they keep replicating themselves after a reboot. (this machine is using WindowsME). Does system restore keep saving the files? I dont know how to proceed now; in the past AVG would just put the files in the vault and that would solve the problem. One of the files was in C:\\RESTORE.



A: From the looks of it, AVG is reading this from an infected file in
your System Restore (yes, if system restore is turned on it does save
a copy of the infected files).

Disable your System Restore and run AVG again. That should clear it
up. Once it does, go ahead and re-enable your System Restore.

If you don't know how to disable your System Restore, you can go
here: http://www.brohm.org/SystemRestore.htm

Good Luck!

-Tam Cavadias

ithaki@sc.rr.com