Author: Jim Kearman
Date: 17:21:28 09/13/00
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On September 12, 2000 at 08:14:20, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: > >Do we really need all this anti-virus protection? I never had a virus in 20 >years, and if I count the time I spent downloading anti-virus programs and >updates and scanning disks over the years, in case of infection I think I would >have been better off partitioning and reformatting disks and reinstalling >everything. I don’t know if I have been lucky or my case is common. Anti-virus s/w is good for non-technical users. In 10 years online I've had three viruses arrive as email attachments. In each case I dumped the email without running the attachment. One of those emails came from a software engineer, the other came from an electronics engineer, both of whom should have known better. The third one came from an academic type who really thought Happy99 was special. Her I forgave. If you get an attached exe, set it aside and contact the sender for more info.
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