Dear Joyce,
I wonder where these are coming from?
I wonder if Lizzie downloads music with peer to peer software?
That's normal and that is the price
- keep the guards updated and in memory if you are doing
this.
There is indeed a new batch going around.
There is even a virus that speaks a message . . .
(virus writers are communicators - of a sort)
It depends a lot on what sort of Internet activity you are involved
with.
meanwhile . . .
. . . old hippies might find 'Groovy' a new programming language not
so groovy
- hence the need for Tmxxine ASQ 'Language watch'
and DotGNU might suit you Joyce - rather than using the MS version
.Net
but the way to get a secure computer (getting back to that) is to download
puppy linux
(or maybe there is a super secure linux distro for USB)
put it on a keyring and do all your booting and work from that
or perhaps booting from a 'live CD'
You COULD do this with Windows BUT because of MS licensing it is
not that straightforward
Dunno if I would bother
try anti-vir and see if it is better than AVG
(I have started using it because it has some trojan support)
for me the viruses went down since using foxmail
(Eudora had a nasty habit of storing deleted emails - with attachments that
though not
open were in fact viral - so they were spotted by the virus checker)
And FireFox and Slimbrowser (for Curlchat) are now my preferred
browsers
- if Firefox were to run Curl - that would be it for IE
(Internet Explorer) derivatives.
Firefox has completely usurped Opera for me ...
IE is being developed for the new operating system from MS - a couple of
years away
but the one to watch out for will be integrated with a search engine
- talking of search engines
they nearly named this one (still in beta so a bit slow)
after me
had to move Holygeeks Freeware page
:-)
Crusty
Hi Everyone -
Updated your virus definitions in the past day?
Run a full scan in the past 24 hours?
Yeah, me neither.
:)
Lizzie's laptop was found to have 9 viruses when she ran AVG today - this
is after she reformatted and reinstalled XP again only yesterday.
(As a reassurance, i have not used her laptop myself to connect to the net
or send any mails or attachments in the past 3 days, and my own computer scans
clean.)
AVG fixed 7 of the 9 viruses, but was not able to take care of netldr.exe
and updr32.exe.
She is running Stinger now (which may fix them), but if that does not work,
there are manual procedures available for both.
In the course of finding them, i came across a free online virus scanner
from Trend Micro - here it is:
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