Re: [Elecraft] dangerous software

2007-07-21 Thread Matt Palmer
Looks like phishing to me (bad grammar is key) Matt KD8DAO On 7/21/07, John Palmar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My virus protection sends me the following message every to send an email. Do you know anything about this? *** PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS NOTIFICATION. *** Trend Micro PC-calling

RE: [Elecraft] dangerous software

2007-07-21 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
If it's really happening in response to your sending each e-mail (try sending a message to yourself and see if it happens) it sounds like your computer already has a virus. If the misspelling (pc-calling instead of pc-cillin) is really how it appears in the message, the message itself is part of

Re: [Elecraft] dangerous software

2007-07-21 Thread Sam Morgan
Fred (FL) wrote: John Palmar - Short of going out and buying some expensive cumbersome security program, I'd download several of the very good freebee security programs, such as: snip a friend of mine with a young teen aged daughter that uses IM pgms a lot. Mentioned to me he had to use AVG's

RE: [Elecraft] dangerous software

2007-07-21 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
Absolutely! I have used AVG Anti-Virus by Grisoft for over four years on several machines without a single issue. In my experience it is far more stable and reliable than either of the two highly-advertised brands that often come pre-loaded on new machines, and it has a much, much smaller memory

Re: [Elecraft] dangerous software

2007-07-21 Thread Sam Morgan
Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: Downloads take only a few seconds. The paid version (at least) updates automatically. IIRC the free version simply requires a click on a radio button. In the free version, updates are automagically downloaded each day at the time you set them to do so. Or it can be