Armour while fighting the internet deamons

After the virus cleaning last weekend I wanted to find a more updateable media than constantly burning new CDs and throwing away the obsolete when the AV is worthless when new viruses come out (new viruses (no it’s not virii!) are always coming out) doesn’t seem environmental or convenient. So my favourite online store, Newegg has exactly what I was looking for: A read-write selectable thumb drive. 8gbs is more than enough for a disinfectant kit (usually a mix of Avast, Avira, Malwarebytes and Combofix gets rid of the bulk of viruses. Update at home, throw the switch and it’s read-only and insert into the USB port with confidence!

Microsoft looks like they are getting ready to put McAfee and Symantec out of business, they already have security essentials out (and it is really good!), but now they are coming out with a complete package called InTune, not public yet but it will be one-stop protection up to a corporate level! Personally I am not a huge fan of either McAfee or Symantec; They are probably responsible of more infections than they have cured, I mean they pay Dell, Acer (insert PC manufacturer here) to put their nag-ware software on new machines, then at the end of a year they nag the user that they have to buy AV software that they think they already did with their now year old PC and then when they expire, they just stop protecting the system, not only from new viruses and even the old ones! That and they are charging people for AV software that bettered by free software readily available! Nah, it’s time for Microsoft to just ship antivirus with their OS.