Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 22:55:27 02/29/04
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On February 29, 2004 at 22:29:46, Peter Skinner wrote:
>With all the small tournaments here I am wondering if people have been using
>virii protection on their computers?
>
>Do they turn the protection off while the games are going?
>Do they have none at all?
>
>The reason I ask is I have recieved emails from people here at the CCC that I
>speak to via email, that are infected with email worms. I have emailed those
>specific individuals giving them a heads up to remove whatever worm they are
>infected with and a link to the correct virus removal tool from the Symantec
>website.
>
>I have seen other posts that state if one is using a Chessbase product to turn
>off the virus protection as it slows everything down horribly.
>
>I am just wondering the reasons one should run a virii program, and when one
>turn it off.. obviously some people are not to clear.
>
>Peter
>
>PS. I have been slowly making the conversion to Linux as I dual boot. I find
>myself in Debian more and more as the amount of exploits for Windows is getting
>out of hand.
Hi Peter
None of my three PC's where I am playing Engine-/Engine-Matches
has access to the internet and therefore no virus protection is
turned on. On my internet PC the virus protection is of course
always activated. And yesterday, it was terrible: I got about
20 emails from chessfriends all over the world with no real subject
but with an attachment including the Worm.SommeFool. None of these
emails came to my harddisk because my email program is set up in
a way that at first I only read the header of the messages before
downloading. And in this way I could directly delete the suspicious
mails on the server.
Kurt
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