Steve’s Stuff

In this article, you can find out how to talk on Google’s new chat service:smash’s world: I’m on Google Talk right now. _ the offical homepage of Ben Guild (smash).

Say hello… I’m “sdstern” there.

If you don’t have GAIM (my recommend IM client — it handles MSN, AOL, Yahoo, and Google), you can get the Google Talk client here. It appears that the Google Talk client also includes VOIP.

Since I wrote about Google Desktop and Copernic last week and since my side-by-side comparison a couple of months ago, there’s a new version of the Google Desktop. It’s been running on this machine for a few hours and has completed indexing. So far, it seems as complete as the Copernic index. The new Google Sidebar is like having a smarter version of the Google Personal Home Page up all the time.

When, oh, when will there be a version of GDS for Linux?

VirusTotal enables testing a suspicious file with 22 antivirus tools. Current stats are displayed, too.

Sunday’s ISC handler writes about an experience with AntiVirus Gold - a program that pretends to be a spyware scanner. Read about it here.

I recommend two high quality free packages, AdAware and SpyBot Search & Destroy.

Removing a spyware infection is getting harder and harder. In some cases, it’s far more cost effective to recover data as best one can, then format the hard drive and reinstall the operating system and program files.