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Earl....
"to throw money at the virus software companies which love to add to the
hype."
It just isn't hype, the Symantec Norton Antivirus 2000, when place on full
strength can destroy, yes destroy stuff, never imaginable. I guess due to
the way it works, I had to uninstall and reinstall, Office 2000, two times
because NA2K corrupts Excel so bad it won't boot up. I lost a huge
important spreadsheet, it is now so defective that it will corrupt Excel.
Don't ask why? I was getting page fault error in Ensign for Windows, Excel,
Netscape 4.7. When I installed Photoshop 5.5 it took a week of fiddling,
the NA2K was corrupting the .exe file .... and on and on. . Keep away from
this monstar!..
I will concede now that I have it only checking the email things have toned
down. Very very few problems.
But when I upgraded the virus signatures from them on Friday, it crashed
proproxy.exe the program that intercepts email.. nothing is perfect in the
computer world. But NA2K sucks major bigtime on programs and the OS
Don Thompson
----- Original Message -----
From: Earl Adamy <eadamy@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 8:42 AM
Subject: [RT] Re: First "I love You", and now this. BE WARE!!!
> Thanks for the additional info ... have created an OE5 filter which
> looks for messages with an attachment and ".vbs" in the body and routes
> them to a WarningAndReject folder for further inspection. Actually, I
> keep my system up to date with the Microsoft Windows Update
> (IE5>Tools>WindowsUpdate) security updates and they do a good job of
> plugging vulnerabilities and issuing warnings. Throw in a bit of
> reasonable caution with file exchanges, downloads, and attachments and
> I've found no need (in 15+ years of using PC's) to throw money at the
> virus software companies which love to add to the hype.
>
> Earl
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Holverstott" <dennis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 12:50 PM
> Subject: [RT] Re: First "I love You", and now this. BE WARE!!!
>
>
> > I wrote:
> > > You need to create two custom headers,
> > > content-type and content-disposition. Tell it to delete the message
> > > if either of those contains .vbs.
> >
> > Sorry about that, it doesn't work. Thanks to Gary Fritz for the heads
> > up. However, telling the filter to look in the BODY of the message for
> > the string .vbs does work. Apparently Netscape (in my case) and
> Pegasus
> > (in Gary's case) don't consider the attachment headings to be
> "headers."
> > I don't have a clue what to do with Outlook Express (other than
> > Add/Remove Programs - Outlook Express - Remove.) Sorry, I couldn't
> > resist that. :-)
>
>
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