[LargeFormat] Recent Virus

[Brock Nanson]

You won't go wrong with the Norton (Symantec) Anti-virus offerings.  The
important thing, with whatever package you buy, is to keep it UP TO DATE!!!
I have my office machines set to check for updates daily!!  Same with my
windows box at home.  The new viruses spread quickly because few people
update regularly.  'Last week' is not recent enough and 'last month' means
you might as well not have the software.  The big AV companies get the
update files out very, very soon after the virus is first found.  If
everyone was diligent in keeping their AV definition files up to date,
viruses wouldn't get very far.

Unfortunately, AV software is an absolute necessity these days...

Brock

----- Original Message -----
From: philip Lambert <philip.lambert@virgin.net>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Recent Virus


> Thanks all for the comments. I am grateful to Symantec as well who
> downloaded an antivirus file specific to the virus involved which scanned
> all my hard disk and deleted the offending worm file .  Clive if you can
get
> this email through your system without a virus alert sounding I guess my
> system must be clean for the moment. I did have McAfee antivirus on my
Dell
> but it got lost when Dell decided to fit a new hard disk, motherboard,
> processor and so on. The computer is a lot faster and is reliable but I
need
> to buy some Antivirus XXXXX   I was trying to download PCCILLIN but it was
> taking an age as I suspect lots of other people had the same need due to
> this current virus. Anybody wish to suggest the most appropriate antivirus
> software for a standalone laptop?   Thanks again. Philip
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Clive Warren" <cocam@cableinet.co.uk>
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 1:02 AM
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Recent Virus
>
>
> > At 6:04 pm +0000 1/12/01, philip Lambert wrote:
> > >Curiously I just this minute had a message from Scoot.com that
something
> I
> > >sent them had a virus. What is strange about this is I never sent them
> > >anything. Are you confident about your virus-free list?  Philip
> >
> > Hello Philip,
> >
> > Yep - totally confident.
> >
> > As has already been mentioned by Verna and Les, these viri (?)
> > usually propagate by going through the OutLook EMail address book of
> > the affected machine and sending themselves out to other people in
> > the address book.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >          Clive
> >
> >
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