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WebWiz-Bruce 
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 Topic: Check your computer for viruses!
Posted: 30 January 2004 at 6:22am |
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There are some new quite nasty email viruses around at the moment and I
am presently getting these viruses in emails at the rate of 500 per
hour and increasing making email almost unusable.
Could everyone who has ever emailed this site please run an UP-TO-DATE virus scanner on their systems.
And for those that don't yet have these viruses, DON'T CLICK ON ANY EMAIL ATTACHMENTS!!
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Mart
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Posted: 30 January 2004 at 11:12am |
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Damn email viruses, howcome mcafee can't block them.
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Semikolon
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Posted: 30 January 2004 at 11:20am |
yo.. i installed norton internet security two days ago and updated it, but my dad have got 50 mydoom mails the last couple of days..
but i installed on the administrator account, do i have to configure the antivirus once on all accounts?
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Posted: 30 January 2004 at 12:10pm |
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no, if you see it running in the system processes, it should be fine...
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Posted: 30 January 2004 at 12:21pm |
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then i think its something wrong.. maybe it missed something when i was updating..
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 30 January 2004 at 12:33pm |
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I've tried norton and macaffee and found that they both let viruses through.
As I get aorund 30 viruses in emails aday normally it is essential that I use a good virus program.
For the last few years I have used Trend Micro Internet Security (formally PC-Cillin) and so far it has not let me down once.
The virus round at the moment are so obviously viruses I can't beleive people are clicking the attachments.
It's just a pain in the arse for me having to wait an hour every 2
hours for my email to download at the moment, and thats with a 512kbps
connection, just becuase people are stupid enough to open email
attachments.
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Mart
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Posted: 30 January 2004 at 1:54pm |
Ive installed Trend Micro Internet Security now... It looks better than Mcafee 
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Posted: 30 January 2004 at 4:58pm |
My email policy is simple, if there are graphics at the top, delete it. If I don't know who it is from and there are attachements, delete it. If it is a virus, delete it. If I'm not expecting an attachment and I know who it's from, delete it and email the person. If it is possible for the file attachment to carry a virus, don't open it.
I'm using AVG now, and it seems to work ok. I used to use RAV, and liked it, but MS bought it and it's gone now. 
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