YOU’VE got to hand it to the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. — this was a pretty interesting demo of their PLDT Guardian wireless security solution versus pilferage or inside jobs.
Video taken by INQUIRER.net technology reporter Erwin Oliva.
By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net
FOR the nth time, I got hit by a computer virus. This time, though, it was a nasty hit.
I was happily surfing the Internet last weekend when my antivirus software started detecting it. I am not yet sure if it is a Trojan (a malicious program that leaves a backdoor open in your system for hackers to take control), or a computer worm (self-replicating malware). But it was clear. It was annoying and it took control of my laptop.
As one saying goes, there are many ways to skin a cat. The most effective and yet desperate way to get rid of a computer virus is to format the computer. Wipe the hard drive clean, and start afresh. But that would mean losing all your important files, data, and programs — not to mention wasted man hours in reinstalling the operating system, drivers, etc. So that wasn’t an option. I had to find a way to take out the computer virus with surgical precision.
