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Chuck
I broke down and bought Symantec's SystemsWorks which handles the AV stuff
as well as scanning the Internet for updates to all of my software, etc.
Was able to buy it for $59 and that included some free AV updates as well as
6 months (I think) membership in their other stuff. So far, it appears to
have worked. Even if I forget, it automatically goes out over the Internet
and downloads the latest AV stuff.
I'm like you. I never open anything unless it's a joke from one of my
friends (I get about 10 of those a day <G>) or something I'm looking for.
Even then, I'll run it past the AV manually, just to double check. Knock on
wood, but I've managed to avoid getting a virus so far.
In addition, I use NetStore and back up nightly over the Internet. When I
go to shut down the computer, it asks me if I want to back up before I exit.
I always take the Yes option and it backs everything up and then turns off
the hardware. That's my ace-in-the-whole. They don't to any AV checking
because everything is totally encrypted and is never opened up on their
systems. For the $5 a month or whatever it costs me, I look at this as
money well spent. In the past I've lost hard drives and been 3 months
behind on my backups. Its taken me up to 2 or 3 months to reenter
everything.
Regards
Guy
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Chuck Engstrom
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 5:08 AM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: OFF TOPIC : VIRUS WARNING !
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I'm never more than 1 day out of date.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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