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Number   :  3971
Date     :  2003-03-06
Author   :  meirman@e...
Subject  :  Re: OT: AntiVirus
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At 11:12 PM 3/5/03 -0000, mgomgo wrote:
>Kan:
>
>Like you, in the past 18 years that I have been messing around with 
>computers I have had just one or two virus incidents . 

I've been doing this at home about 18 years too. Pretty peacful for the
first 15 years. Then maybe 3 a year for the next 2 1/2. Then I got six in
one weekend from three sources. A Canadian ISP tracked down one guy and he
stopped. Since Dec 23, someone sends me one about 26 times a month, but
planet.nl has never even acknowledged my complaints. So since he always
uses the same name, I have an email filter for his name. But the antivirus
alerts too. I like that it does that before I'm about to run it, when I'm
saving it to Eudora attachment directory.

One more question below.

>My employer, however says they trap and kill around 50 virus 
>instances -daily- at our site alone and that's after going thru about 
>three AV scribs before the e-mail even gets to our inboxes. 
>
>On my machine at home one virus had sat in a folder for quite some 
>time (years) until I just happened to scan the drive with that folder 
>on board. 
>
>Certain virus programs will drag down a machine like a boat anchor, 
>and some are quite light on their feet. I hardly notice mine, and it 

Very interesting story. So what is your current AV program?


>always auto-updates and the program then auto-scans weekly while I 
>sleep.
>
>A friend of mind accidently relayed a virus to several companies he 
>deals with and they all trapped the virus and auto-notified him by 
>return e-mail. That particularly nasty bug would not even let him 
>run his AV program and we had to install one that let us shell out to 
>DOS and kill it from there. 
>
>By the way, your cool boot disk utility still lets me shell to DOS 
>and run the DOS version of my present AV program now that I am 
>running Windows XP. I also use that boot disk to get to my old 
>version of Partition Magic. 
>
>-michael goodrich
>Tucson, Az

Meir 

meirman@e... Baltimore, MD, USA



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