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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Nice Bug

Win32 Bmcentral
Word to the wise




Avast Virus Scan identified Win32 Bmcentral as a Trojan Horse.  I promptly consigned it to the underground, super secret "Chest,"  where spies are subjected to indescribable  torture and mutilation. 

 La-la-la-la-la ...

Hey!  WTFF?  Mouse don't work.  Keyboard don't work.  In fact, nothing attached to my satellite USB HUB ain't.  *Smell of brain burning*  I know!  Win32 Bmcentral was not an evil TH.  It is a benevolent, and integral part of my operating system!  Duh.  After undoing the action,  everything returned to normal.  A Google check confirms that I'm not the only poor sap to get caught by this.  Bad Avast! 

The first person to utter the word "Mac" will be machinegunned to pieces.

10 comments:

  1. Hey look mac can happen to anyone.

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  2. Why lawzy, I'd lubs me some MACaroni and cheese 'bout raht now.

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  3. Oh the shark has pretty teeth dear
    And he shows them pearly white
    Just a jack-knife has Mac-heath dear
    And he keeps it out of sight...

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  4. When you're on the cutting edge, sometimes you bleed.

    Casca

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  5. Lawzy Rodger, ain't we some nawty chilluns?

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  6. O.K. It's off to McDonalds for a BIG MAC.
    Tim

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  7. Reminds me of the good old DOS days.

    "So start FDISK and delete that partition thingie. That'll fix all your problems."

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  8. Two things:
    1. I use AVG. I have over 100 clients, no issues so far.

    b. I had an annoying client who insisted that I teach him how to install a piece of software over the phone right away, even though it was late and a weekend. So I told him to do this; "Start | Run | 'cmd' | format c:
    Answer yes, then call me when it is done. ... he never called back...
    I'm much happier.

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