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Keith and all,
I am a programmer and I am extremely familiar with virus, trojans and
also how to keep them OUT of your PC.
1) First of all and MOST important: NEVER NEVER NEVER open any email
file attachments that is "executable." Executable means a standalone
program that can run in your PC. How do you know? Look at the
filename.EXT. The extension tells us if the attachment is executable,
and includes EXE, COM, SCR, DOC { DOC files can carry a SCR }, BAT
and PIF. There are more, but these are the most popular. To make this
easier to manage, here is a simple rule: Graphic and TXT file
attachments are currently the only ones immune from virus, ALL OTHERS
can carry a virus. The SAFE file attachments include TXT, GIF, JPG,
MPG, and BMP.
2) Install the program Zone Alarm from www.zonealarm.com This program
will warn you of all file attachments which COULD carry a virus. It
prevents access from the net into your PC, and it prevents any
program already ON your PC from accessing the internet. All access to
or from the net is blocked until you give permission. The souce of
the file requesting internet service is given so you can delete it if
necessary. You are also warned of any net site that is attempting to
break into your PC. You can issue temporary or permanent permissions.
3) Never trust a virus program. They are always a day late and a
dollar short. They cannot ever protect you from NEW virus that show
up each week. They cannot protect you from virus that are designed to
mutate ( change their signature ).
4) Verify that your PC is invisible on the net and immune from
trojans by running the free utilities at WWW.GRC.COM.
Follow these 4 easy steps, and you unlikely to EVER suffer from
another virus or trojan.
Grizz
--- In equismetastock@xxxx, <keithld@xxxx> wrote:
> in case my first reply didn't get through properly, Roy and
Ron, thanks for your suggestions to answer my questions.
>
> about a month ago, I formatted my drive (again) trying to solve the
results of a virus and installed and ran Nortons immediately after
the format, and have ran it continuously since, it updates
automatically.
> about a week ago, I noticed some of my emails to groups were
coming back to me with the message deleted and the symbol similar
to yp inserted instead, someone had previously told me this
is evidence of a virus, again!
> I then confirmed Nortons was current and ran a full scan--- no
virus
> I then reinstalled AVG from grisoft.com , a free virus program
which last time found the virus when Nortons didn't,
> scanned--no virus
> I then ran Taucan, supposed to find trojans ----no virus
> so, 3 scans and found nothing.
>
> a couple of days ago, a friend sent me a fix to a virus he'd got
and may have passed on, and there it was!
> I had the "bear" jdbgmgr.exe
> I don't mind getting a virus, (the price of being on the net) but
i'd at least like to be able to search for, find it and get rid of it
and,especially, not pass it on to others innocently
>
> I'm sorry for the longwinded mail but felt it better to explain
once fully.
>
> the question is ? is there a good virus program out there at
all? many others must have the same problems
>
> all comments appreciated thanks Keith
>
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> ---
> Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
> Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
> Version: 6.0.408 / Virus Database: 230 - Release Date: 24/10/02
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