politics | signal boost: want to help the Russian anti-corruption bloggers on lj?

Want to help out those Russian anti-corruption activists?
As various folks have noted, when you're not a Russian-speaker, or a computer expert, or both, what's the best thing you can do to help out?
Check on your computer, and if necessary, clean up your computer.
Keeping up on your antivirus software and your operating system upgrades is the best way to prevent your computer from joining botnets like the one that are still attacking lj.
Various people on my circle or flist have posted info on the lj infected computer map.
This one came via majoline from cluegirl.

http://cluegirl.dreamwidth.org/1227870.html

Who says:

Check to make sure your IP is not on this map.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=en&geocode=&q=http:%2F%2Fwww.livejournal.com%2Fops%2Fsecond_attack.kml&aq=&sll=20.96144,-38.320312&sspn=151.943385,95.273437&ie=UTF8&ll=24.846565,-29.179687&spn=151.155869,95.273437&z=2

It shows all the comps involved in the DDoS - check to make sure your PC has not been zombified by a virus and is helping.

If you don't know you IP address, go here: http://whatismyipaddress.com/

[Then compare your IP address to the listing of addresses that run off to the left side of that google map. Also, I hate to say this, but it's a very long list, not in numeric order at all. You have to check through the whole thing.]

And if your machine is infected? Run anti-virus software to root it out.

gakked from majoline, here:
http://majoline.dreamwidth.org/41166.html

signal boost about anti-virus software :D

My Nifty Guide to the ~Best~ Anti-Virus Software!

Several good free tools are by Trend Micro
http://free.antivirus.com/
(their paid items are pretty decent too)

Another good free one is Clam AV
http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/about/win32/
(they also do a pretty good sysadmin tool kit)

Microsoft, surprise surprise, also does a pretty good job of free virus scanning:
It's called Windows Defender
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx

And don't forget to update your computer all the time, Windows users!

Most of the times the Tuesday Updates are routine updates to fix things other people can break.

Things that update on not a Tuesday? Are REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT. DON'T SCREW AROUND. INITIATE THESE UPDATES AS SOON AS YOU GET THEM, OKAY?

****A good paid one is F-Prot<-- This is the one I personally use on all of my computers, period. I don't have any other paid recs because this works so very well and your $29 US pays for five(5) computers.

http://www.f-prot.com/