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Posted: 2004-01-29 08:57:52
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I haven't had a virus sice the Marijuana virus way back when I had a 386 based PC. Since then I have always "used protection" and after many years of using mcafee I switched last year to Norton Internet Security which includes a firewall and spam filter too.
IMHO its the better product for all round protection.
I haven't seen the mydoom virus yet but I get lots of fake bank and ebay emails trying to get me reveal my account and password details and these are another form of attack on us I guess
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Posted: 2004-01-29 09:05:27
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@masseur - you really mean a marijuana virus (ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,). Maybe they will also come up with a name, cocaine virus . . .
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Posted: 2004-01-29 13:43:17
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yeah, actually its main name was
stoned.standard
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Posted: 2004-01-29 13:53:57
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Norton is certainly a very thorough AV / PFW app but unfortunately I find it a bit too heavy for lower spec PC's (I've only got an Athlon 750Mhz, 256MB RAM).
It seemed to take ages to load on startup and every time the firewall popped up a message, the flippin' PC froze for a few seconds!
Now I use Grisoft AVG and Agnitum Outpost PFW and my comp behaves itself much better. I would recommend both of these apps to anyone with older PC's.
Agnitum Outpost is freeware too, by the way
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Posted: 2004-01-29 14:07:33
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Myself,i would prefer to pay 4 my av, as i tink that the small amount of money is worth paying to protect my pc. No1's mentioned sophos anti v ,i tink this is the kiddy. While av'in this ,have had no viruses.
This message was posted from a T610
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Posted: 2004-01-29 14:19:29
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I don't mind paying for av, it is most certainly worth the money, however I have installed avg freeware on my pc whilst looking around and found that it very much does all i need it to do and it's free.... so it simply stayed on ever since
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Posted: 2004-01-29 14:32:53
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Oh yeah, I'm not suggesting that people shouldn't pay for AV and PFW software, It's just that the two apps I mentioned are very good and happen to be free as well, so that's even better isn't it?
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Posted: 2004-01-29 14:43:22
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Oh Yes of course,free is always good. But personally i got too much stuff to lose,so i want to make sure i'm protected.
This message was posted from a T610
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Posted: 2004-01-29 14:53:44
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I keep getting virus's sent to
webmaster@boyi.8k.com so i've taken it off the site.
Heres a few details to look out for,
inzy@blueyonder.co.uk sent a 'swimmingpoll.zip'.
esha3000@hotmail.com sent another zip (forgot name).
jeffschader@theskinfactory.com sent 'mails.exe'.
elainescarrett@btinternet sent 'dinner.scr'.
ndr@o2.co.uk sent 'posting.zip'.
richard@lanr.co.uk sent disco.doc.pif'.
and
webmaster@tgtsoft.com sent 'topseller.htm.scr'.
All of these were between 27kb and 31kb attacthments,i never usually get mails like these but they were all sent to my boyi.8k.com site.....Bastards!!!
EDIT! Just got another while posting this reply,'izmir@tse.org.tr'. Hopefully that will be the last
Btw,i scanned them with avast! anti-virus and they
were all infected.
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[ This Message was edited by: boyi on 2004-02-25 17:31 ]
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Posted: 2004-02-25 18:26:12
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