Linux laptop hard disk naming conventions – a word of warning

FYI – if a linux distro mounts a disk as “sda1,” that by itself does not, apparently, serve as definitive proof that the drive in question is in fact a serial drive – if the drive happens to be in a laptop.  For those of you who are scratching your heads and wondering what exactly [...]

How to remove the family of rouge anti-malware programs with names similar to “Antivirus 2008 XP” (Update: works on a wide variety of other types of malware as well)

Update: I recently discovered that many bugs that aren’t part of this family nevertheless function (and, consequently, can be killed) in exactly the same manner. Thus, unless I’m very much mistaken, these instructions can be generalized to a wide range of infections. So whenever I refer to “this family of bugs,” know that what I’m [...]