Free Anti-Virus: Microsoft Security Essentials

By David, on November 23rd, 2009

Microsoft Security Essentials is a free anti-virus program.

All of the free anti-virus programs out there have usually pretty quickly fallen out of favour with me, in particular the previous community darling AVGFree.

Having a free option from Microsoft, that performs extremely well with minimal resource usage, is a boon.

For privacy reasons, you might want to opt out . . . → Read More: Free Anti-Virus: Microsoft Security Essentials

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ESET NOD32 Antivirus and Proxies

By David, on January 17th, 2009

Today I’m working on a .NET hobby project.

At a simple level, I’m writing a web proxy implementation,  and was using 8080 as the default port.

When trying to write and run unit tests to make sure my server was binding to this port and shutting down as and when expected, I found I could connect to 8080 . . . → Read More: ESET NOD32 Antivirus and Proxies

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