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Forced Resurrection

I was recently quite strongly reminded of the need to have a fully operational website or blog, and actually had to give some thought to where my last version resided and what it was called (it didn’t matter too much actually, as non of the previous incarnations were operational). However, in the process of migrating some of the old articles across (very useful to me for historic reasons), I realised it has been over 10 years since I last properly submitted something to the blog - but even more than that, what has changed in my life, technology, and the systems and services I now use in comparison to 10 years ago.

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Monitor the Situation

I like monitors – VDUs, screens, the ‘telly bit – call them what you will, they are useful things, they let you work with a computer and you can accomplish all sorts of things – edit your favourite photos, watch the latest blockbuster movie, or even play games… you can do that other stuff too, that other thing that pays the bills – ah yes, work!

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What anti-malware software do you use?

Originally posted on January 9, 2012

OK, so this is somewhat linked with Anti-Virus solutions, but I personally make use of a separate Anti-Malware tool to provide a “belt-and-braces” approach. This is also very good for cleaning up already infected machines if, like me, you end up helping other people recover their PC’s from such infections (which I seem to do a lot).

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