Infamous or famous, rich or poor?

.

I love pictures. I also like to find provocative pieces which make one ponder. Now I have to give a slight warning here because the picture I am posting below is one that may make you want to vomit. So, if you have just had more than a couple pieces of pizza, and about 5 too many beverages, while topping it off with the best chocolate cake, you will want to stop reading NOW. Do not go any further. I mean, we have had Britney Spears sculpture of her posing nude, while pregnant, on a bearskin rug. We had images of the flamboyant Parisian throwing a brick at police, while fires burned in the background, and of course the one of a massive man sitting naked on a chair. I feel this little ditty is in the "special" calibre. I hope you do too.

As an interlude, I feel it is always good to break away from the same ole political talk, worries of the future, postulations upon themes which hold no lasting value, and hold a couple light hearted blog spots. So please indulge me for a time, we will get back to important topics. I read with interest about Sarkozy and his wife, about Putin with his weapons and a bit about the Tour de France. Hopefully steroids will not be such a blemish this year. Today I would like to focus on Virus Protection. Here is my story......

My laptop wasn't performing very well. I was not happy, and thought it was due to not enough memory. I went out and purchased 2GB of RAM, upgrading from a paltry 512, and then expected a marked improvement in my performance. I noticed no difference. In fact, when I clicked on "My Computer," it would take up to ten seconds before loading the page. Of course at this point I was too lazy to push this big mountain of a problem off of me and to investigate why things were not going too well. The next indicator was when a little bubble came up in my taskbar informing me I was out of disk space. I moved skads of junk to my spare usb drive and went for coffee. Upon my return I noticed the little bubble was back. No disk space. My co-worker asked if I had updated my virus definitions. I hadn't, so I did. Of course, my virus scanner did not pick up anything awry, so I let it slide. Two weeks have gone past, and with a burst of energy I tackled the problem. On Thursday, last week I downloaded Prevx. I chose the free trial. The idea is, that they will put the software on you computer, and will update it, while watching for trouble. Upon finding a perpetration, they will clean it up. After 30 days though, they will only tell you that there is a problem. At that point you can buy it, which is actually pretty inexpensive, and it will continue to flush any problems into the toilet.

( Picture below is an example of a virus having its way with YOUR computer )

Sunday, today, I turned to my Prevx install, and did an extensive scan. I note in fairness that it, once installed does a quick scan to find anything. It didn't. I had to enable a full scan and it found 2 malicious files, which were over 8MB each. Yes eight freaking megabytes each! It is the equivalent of 6-10 songs, or about 15000 of the above picture and 50 of my last blogs or thereabout. So officially I dedicate this small spot, to spruiking Prevx. Hopefully Google won't be too mad because they want to put their own ads here, but that is my humble opinion, and I intend to let everyone I know, know.

A virus, or rootkit, or worm, or trojan, and the humble computer user is rarely a good combination... as evidenced in the picture at the top. "Where did all my hard drive space go?"