Logging onto one of the shared computers at the UniSA Mawson Lakes campus this morning I got this error message. Again.
The virus definition file is more than 7 days old. Updating to a new virus definition file will help catch the most recent viruses.
Also, I like grilled cheese sandwiches. Put one in my CD-ROM tray.
Remember back in the day when having month old definitions was still cutting edge? Now Windows users are considered vulnerable if definitions are 7 days old. Is that why despite being version 6.1 the called it Windows 7?
What’s more worrying is shared UniSA computers use a system that wipes them and reimages a clean install of Windows and custom software onto them over the network; it combines the negative insecurity and heavy hardware requirements of a thick client with the bandwidth problems of thin clients while delivering the benefits of neither — genius! But we’re getting sidekicked sidetracked: this system means each shared computer across the university would have these old definitions.
Even though my notebooks run FreeBSD, Linux and/or OS X, I think I’ll be using Hotspot VPN or GoToMyPC more often when I’m on campus.
I’d reconsider your passion for the grilled cheese sandwich. If evil viruses like it, do you really want to be associated with them?
Ah but to be fair, it’s the computer that has a virus that likes said grilled cheese sandwiches, not the virus itself. The computer is merely a hapless victim