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This morning at work, shortly after an AVG virus scan had completed, one of our users got an error when opening nearly any application that the dynamically linked library otdll.dlo could not be found in the path. After futzing with it for 15 minutes, I was at a loss and decided to reboot. The graceful [...]

Today Microsoft came out with patches for 7 bugs. I promptly applied them as usual, and got the usual nag screen afterwards…

And of course, 10 minutes later, the same message. If you look up “restart now restart later” on Google, you’ll get lots of frustrated people talking about bad design in software, and how this [...]

About a year ago I had pretty time-consuming battle with spyware, and from the spyware, viruses. I don’t know if the version of Symantec AV was out of date or what (the updates still kept coming in, but so did the infections). And AdAware just wasn’t cutting it with the free edition. I’ll admit [...]