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Sorry to hear of your problems. A long, long time ago (Windows 3.1), I
had Central Point Software's (Tools) file management and scripting
utility package which included everything but the kitchen sink and was
the only 1.0 product I ever purchased which was virtually bug-free. v.2
was even better. Symantec bought out CP and promptly discontinued
support for CP so I "upgraded" to the Norton package which included a
virus checker. The virus checker was such a hog that I uninstalled it
within a few hours. The Norton something or other was so buggy that I
returned it for a refund. I subsequently tried another Symantec product
and it too was beyond my bug tolerance and the support was both poor and
arrogant. I would not touch another Symantec product.
What users don't realize is that virus checking software on high
intercepts virtually every machine instruction rending a high
performance system equivalent to a system more suited for use as a boat
anchor.
Earl
----- Original Message -----
From: "DonThompson" <detomps@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 11:40 AM
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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