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At 11:11 PM 4/26/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Rajesh
>
>As someone who came late to the party, I finally got around to upgrading my
>anti-virus protection around the time of Melissa. Now I download a new
>anti-virus database weekly.
>
>I am probably living in a dream world, but I try to keep the AV current and
>I don't open e-mails or attachments unless I know the sender. I will
>usually keep them unopened for a while and try to determine who sent them. I
>might open them once I know who they are from. I'm just a little paranoid,
>but I also back up nightly via the Internet to a backup server in London, so
>I'm never more than 1 day out of date. Cheap to say the least. The last
>time I lost my system, it took me almost 3 months to get back to speed. On
>the occasions I needed to restore, it worked like a charm.
>
>Regards
>
>Guy
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Rajesh
>Sent: Monday, April 26, 1999 9:28 AM
>To: metastock-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: OFF TOPIC : VIRUS WARNING !
>
>
>26th of April. Lost my Hard disk. Have to catch up on whats really going
>on. I recommend that all of you ELIMINATE /Delete E mail messages
>BEFORE downloading messages from the server.
>
>Lost 2 motherboards and 1 hard disk 3 computers in all.
>
>Just for your information.
>
>
>
That an e-mail came from a friend is no assurance of safety -- one of my
oldest and closest friends, whose computers I take care of, sent me two
copies of HAPPY99.EXE, which had come to him, it now appears, from a friend
in Africa, who got it from who knows where. I never "executed" either of
them -- his e-mails didn't tell me what it was about, and I am wary of
executables. He got stung and I didn't, but that's too close a call for me.
The person who sent it to him did send out a subsequent post on what was
going on and what to do.
Guy -- care to share your anti-virus protocols with us -- which you are
using, and has it caught anything??
Chuck Engstrom
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