Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:35:43 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. 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
The problem with Spybot is that it is updated very irregularly, whereas spyware
issues are much like viruses and need weekly updates at the very worse. I'd
suggest switching to Ad-Aware, which is available in a free version and
regularly updated. You can find it at http://www.lavasoft.de be careful as
there are other bogus spyware programs, including ones with similar names. The
link I gave is to the best one around.
Albert
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