Yes, it is true that if you visit a hostile site that you can have a virus/trojan uploaded to your system using vbscripting or java. There are various patches available from MS. Also you can re-name wscript.exe to wscript.old in your windows dir or winnt\system32 dir for win2k\NT users. This may make some websites un-usable though. It will prevent most email viruses and some web spread viruses. Turning of java in your browser will stop most of the others.
I also highly recommend Kaspersky anti-virus available from www.kaspersky.com. It is smaller and faster than most scanners and does not conflict with other programs like Norton and McAfee do, nor have I ever seen it false, as I have seen most others do. Particularly McAfee. qc -----Original Message----- From: rogalt...@aol.com [mailto:rogalt...@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 4:01 PM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Cc: Rosa Altman Subject: CS>Fwd: [healthfraud] Computer Viruses List: Anyone know if this is true? Roger In a message dated 10/3/2001 3:59:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mike...@aol.com writes: Subj:[healthfraud] Computer Viruses Date:10/3/2001 3:59:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: mike...@aol.com To: truelot...@hotmail.com, jaly...@myexcel.com, healthfr...@lists.quackwatch.com Hello List, My company has been plagued by computer viruses for four weeks now. Some computer pros came in today to fix it. They said you can now get a virus by simply browsing the Internet. Mcihael
