Author: martin fierz
Date: 05:59:44 02/27/04
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On February 26, 2004 at 23:51:33, John Merlino wrote: >On February 26, 2004 at 18:13:43, Bob Durrett wrote: > >>On February 26, 2004 at 16:18:41, John Merlino wrote: >> >>>I don't have any virus-checking software, but >> >>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >> >>Unbelievable!!! > >To all of you who are concerned for my computer's welfare, it is very much >appreciated. :-) > >Just to make sure, though, I downloaded and ran AVG, and everything checked out >fine. No viruses. > >I'm going to tempt fate here and say that I'm not very concerned about viruses. >Both my wife and I are computer professionals, we have no children, and the cat >has not yet learned how to use the computer. We know not to open e-mail >attachments from addresses we don't recognize, and know how to set up our e-mail >clients so that they don't do that automatically. just check my post below.... i thought the same until a couple of days ago. worms do not have to come through email! cheers martin >We know not to go willy-nilly >to any website that we've never been to before. We know something fishy when we >see it. Of course, yes, somebody we KNOW might send us a virus, but it hasn't >happened yet.... > >However, we ARE concerned about spyware, as even perfectly "harmless" and >"benevolent" sites will still install spyware of various nastiness levels. That >is why I regularly run "Spybot - Search & Destroy", which you can get at: > >http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php > >It's a great program, takes only a couple of minutes to run through your entire >computer. You'll be surprised at all the stuff it finds.... > >jm
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