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Posted: 30 April 2004 at 5:47am |
You will love this. I have had a PC in to fix with connection to Internet fault and found
25,611 viruses and NO virus software. 
I don’t like computer users like this as they help spread viruses on the net.
I wish we could put a detection page into our sites to say you have no virus software installed. If this can be done can someone let me know how?
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Posted: 30 April 2004 at 9:33am |
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I wish so as well.
I get loads of people bring me computers to fix only to find 90% of the
time it is a virus and they have no, or expired anti-virus software.
To make it more annoying, even after telling them 80% of these poeple
bring their computers back to me again, to find that they have another
virus and still no anti-virus software installed. Only when they loose
all their documents on their computer do allot of people bother doing
anything.
I just wish everyone would run anti-virus software, as currently I'm
getting 3000+ virus infected emails a day, which is making email for
the site almost un-usable as I don't have the time to go through all
4500+ emails a day.
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Posted: 30 April 2004 at 9:40am |
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I'm lucky that the only virus I have ever had was MS Blaster.. but that
thing was almost un-avoidable with WinXP, even with Antivirus software
BTW, PC Cillin, as you Bruce suggested is a quite good AV program! I like it
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Posted: 30 April 2004 at 10:07am |
I guess all we can do is inform them that having no upto date virus software is like standing in the middle of a busy road, It won’t be long until your hit, big time.
Maybe one day IPS’s will take responsibility to kick users off that are not using upto date virus software or ISPs will include virus software when registering with an ISP.
I would not be suppressed if B Gates combines this into windows and crate another monopoly and court battel.
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Posted: 30 April 2004 at 10:12am |
many ISPs ARE (not IS LOL) giving away AV software for free. at least here in
Norway.. but when it comes on a seperate CD to users who have NO IDEA
how to insert a CD into the tray and install a program, there's no use
in it.. I think that's the problem.. Loads of users have a copy of
Norton without knowing anything about it..
but putting an AV software into Windows wouldn't be a bad idea at all,
as long as it is possible to configure it (unlike this f**king WinXP
firewall  )
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Posted: 30 April 2004 at 10:28am |
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Micorsoft use to have Anti-Virus software as part of windows, back
sometime with MS-Dos 6 and Windows, I think it was only dropped when
Win95 came out.
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Posted: 30 April 2004 at 11:14am |
 Semikolon wrote:
but putting an AV software into Windows wouldn't be a bad idea at all, as long as it is possible to configure it (unlike this f**king WinXP firewall )
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LOL I go with that one
-boRg- wrote:
Micorsoft use to have Anti-Virus software as part of windows, back sometime with MS-Dos 6 and Windows, I think it was only dropped when Win95 came out. |
You learn something every day I did not know that interesting, so thinking about it if Microsoft did add virus soft so to speak, they would be only putting it back into windows not adding it.
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Posted: 30 April 2004 at 11:36am |
-boRg- wrote:
Micorsoft use to have Anti-Virus software as part of windows, back
sometime with MS-Dos 6 and Windows, I think it was only dropped when
Win95 came out.
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Yes, I remember it on Windows 3.1
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