Like a Bagle With that AntiVirus?
For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. - Johnny Carson I don't catch many viruses; on the rare occasion that I errantly click on some unknown executable, Avast jumps up and bellows. But today, I made a boo-boo and watched in horror as my friends, the two Avast bluecons in the notification area, silently disappeared! You might be saying to yourself, "Uh-Oh..." - and you'd be right. There are more than 188 variations of the Bagle virus loose on the Internet. The latest variations pack the means to hide new kinds of nastiness inside your computer, and current antivirus software cannot save you . In fact, not only does this little booger jump out from it's invisible rootkit and whisk away the Avast service executables before they can even be started during an installation, it also disables the Windows Defender service, among other anti-spyware and antivirus installations. That is correct. Traditional antivirus sof...