Passion for the craft…

I was just going through the website of Chetan Bhagat the “Oh so great Indian Author” while browsing around. He has given a couple of best sellers in India, but I feel it is not even worth spending time on light reading. I would rather read the entire C# Language Specification, (which happens to be exceptionally boring), than read one of his. Anyways I read this part where he quotes, Read More…

Security Essenitials and Defender

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I bought a computer recently and I didn’t have an antivirus software. I was wondering what I would do about that. Microsoft already had a fantastic utility called Defender, to detect and remove spyware and potentially unwanted software (which ships with Windows 7). Well now they have come up with is a new antivirus software. It is called the Microsoft Security Essentials, previously known as Microsoft One live care.

It is freely downloadable. There is a 32 bit and a 64 bit versions available and they are compatible with the new and shining Windows 7.

The 32 bit is downloadable here and the 64 bit here.

So no need to worry about spending extra just to keep your machine safe. I say it should come free with the OS, coz the OS, after all, is a software and what’s a software if its not safe…