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I forgot to mention that the Norton Antivirus put such overhead on my
machine, (Win98,ASUS, PIII, 250 meg Ram) that it couldn't keep up with the
TurboExpress fast UART serial port. I was getting overuns on the order of
500 to 1000 for a market period, using the DTN 8000 box running at 230K
baud.
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: DonThompson <detomps@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 1:40 PM
Subject: [RT] Re: First "I love You", and now this. BE WARE!!!
> 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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