Virus?
Posted by Jonathan on November 30th, 2009 (All posts by Jonathan)
A reader reports receiving a warning from anti-virus software about a malicious program called “inst32.exe” after visiting this blog. Has anyone else had a similar experience? If we’re linking to a bad site I’d like to know so that I can remove the link. Thanks.
November 30th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
No, but I have a Mac. This is a great blog!
November 30th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
I agree, grand blog and no viral side effects here in the land of Vista.
November 30th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
No virus here. Only a great blog.
(you might want to check with the fellows at wordpress.org for an update, just to be on the safe side)
December 1st, 2009 at 8:38 am
Sometimes viruses are embedded in ads. Two people visiting the same page may not get the same ad so unless they took a screenshot it’s hard to say where it might have come from.
December 1st, 2009 at 9:01 am
No problems here.
December 1st, 2009 at 9:50 am
I had a struggle to convert my teenaged daughter to a Mac before she left for college. Having spent time, money and years of my life cleaning various viruses, trojans and worms from her PC, I thought it essential before she left. Two years later, I can report that it has been a success and I have not heard a peep about trouble from her. She resisted the change because she had 7,000 downloaded songs on her PC.
December 1st, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Nope, nothing sinister here (PC and running through Firefox)
December 1st, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Here’s another virus to be wary of.
The AGW Anthropogenic Global Warming or Human Induced Climate Change virus was first isolated in a lab at the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Nowhere.
The AGW virus can be recognized by the following signature
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valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,-0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge factor
yearlyadj=interpol(valadj,yrloc,x)
densall=densall+yearlyadj
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The external effect of the virus is visible as a tendency of graphed data to dip in the middle and then rise sharply at the end for no apparent reason.