First antivirus program: Ad-Aware?
Jun. 9th, 2011 12:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carlfoxmartenI'd removed AVG due to my extreme annoyances with it, then remembered that there was another anti-spyware tool I hadn't remembered to install just yet: Ad-Aware Free.
In my past history with it, I've been fairly happy with it, though it usually hasn't found anything.
Today I found signs that it just might include an antivirus tool along with the anti-spyware kit.
In the settings dialog under the "Protection Layers" heading, there's about four checkboxes, with one of them mentioning "Antivirus".
I'll be checking this rumour out later, but for now, I'm throwing this up so you guys can be aware of the possibility.
In other news, I have not yet submitted my resume to Google just yet.
Something seems to be holding me back.
It could just be the perfectionist in me, trying to get the "perfect" resume, when I have so little experience writing them.
Though it could also be the fear of the unknown.
If I did get this job, I'd be moving well out of my known sphere of the world, more-or-less on my own.
My parents would rather I moved to Seattle, where they could visit me more readily, but, given the option, I'd much prefer to go to Waterloo.
I don't think I'm ready to move to the Sates just yet. I think there's a reason I live in Canada, though I don't know what it could be just yet.
When I have time before Friday, I think I'll just throw a resume together, regardless of whether it follows any previously-preferred standard, send it off to the rep and see what happens.
I've spent almost my whole life doing things that are just slightly off the beaten track, and so far in my life, things have turned out just fine.
(for the most part, anyway)
Last week, I had the opportunity to do a last-minute playtesting session of Need For Speed: The Run before the interactive demo was sent to E3, and, due a mix-up with my list of preferred games not being available at the store at that time, will now be getting a copy of NFS: Hot Pursuit in the mail sometime next week.
If that doesn't make sense, try this: I live fairly near to an Electronic Arts location, and they have a public Playtesting program, where you sign up for emails listing the sessions available in the next week, you fill out a survey for the sessions you want, and if you're chosen, you get paid in games.
Up to a three-hour session is generally one game, while the multi-day sessions sometimes net you as many as three games!
(due to the way it works, though, you don't get to choose from every title they've released, and are limited to what they have in their store at the time. This how I got a free copy of Mass Effect 2: Collector's Edition and got introduced to the ME series)
In my past history with it, I've been fairly happy with it, though it usually hasn't found anything.
Today I found signs that it just might include an antivirus tool along with the anti-spyware kit.
In the settings dialog under the "Protection Layers" heading, there's about four checkboxes, with one of them mentioning "Antivirus".
I'll be checking this rumour out later, but for now, I'm throwing this up so you guys can be aware of the possibility.
In other news, I have not yet submitted my resume to Google just yet.
Something seems to be holding me back.
It could just be the perfectionist in me, trying to get the "perfect" resume, when I have so little experience writing them.
Though it could also be the fear of the unknown.
If I did get this job, I'd be moving well out of my known sphere of the world, more-or-less on my own.
My parents would rather I moved to Seattle, where they could visit me more readily, but, given the option, I'd much prefer to go to Waterloo.
I don't think I'm ready to move to the Sates just yet. I think there's a reason I live in Canada, though I don't know what it could be just yet.
When I have time before Friday, I think I'll just throw a resume together, regardless of whether it follows any previously-preferred standard, send it off to the rep and see what happens.
I've spent almost my whole life doing things that are just slightly off the beaten track, and so far in my life, things have turned out just fine.
(for the most part, anyway)
Last week, I had the opportunity to do a last-minute playtesting session of Need For Speed: The Run before the interactive demo was sent to E3, and, due a mix-up with my list of preferred games not being available at the store at that time, will now be getting a copy of NFS: Hot Pursuit in the mail sometime next week.
If that doesn't make sense, try this: I live fairly near to an Electronic Arts location, and they have a public Playtesting program, where you sign up for emails listing the sessions available in the next week, you fill out a survey for the sessions you want, and if you're chosen, you get paid in games.
Up to a three-hour session is generally one game, while the multi-day sessions sometimes net you as many as three games!
(due to the way it works, though, you don't get to choose from every title they've released, and are limited to what they have in their store at the time. This how I got a free copy of Mass Effect 2: Collector's Edition and got introduced to the ME series)
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Date: 2011-06-10 01:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-10 08:09 am (UTC)For me, however, it would be a very large paradigm shift, and one I am not comfortable with considering just yet.
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Date: 2011-06-11 03:14 am (UTC)