Hello Eddie,
personally, i have NEVER had much luck with programs
that sit in the background and purport to "help"..
whether they are anitvirus, or crash protectors, i
ALWAYS have more lock up, and problems with them
running.
that said, i DO use norton antivirus, but instead of
running it in the background, i run a scan about once
every 2 or three months...
i have been getting programs since the old BBS days,
clear back to 1988, and have only been infected by
viruses twice...
once i was infected, had no virus protection, bought
NORTON, and norton HOSED my system.. had to do a
complete reinstall of WIN 98.. format the drive, etc...
i have never had so many system lock ups as when i was
running "crash protection"... stop it, stop it stop it..
one solution to the email virus attacks is to use a less
popular email client.. I stopped using OUTLOOK, Eudora,
Netscape.. in part because they ARE to popular and the
virus creators find it all to easy to use them as
vehicles for attack... ... I highly reccomend THE BAT
from ritlabs.com.. it is full featured (way beyond
outlook) and regularly updated.. in fact they do updates
about 4 times a year.. (when was the last time OUTLOOK
was updated?????)
Sunday, February 04, 2001, 10:30:02 PM, you wrote:
ES> Does anyone out there actually use Norton Antivirus SUCCESSFULLY? I've tried
ES> it a couple or three times now, and it has caused me more trouble that any
ES> virus ever has:
ES> 1) On Win98, it was OK (not great - really slowed things down) but when I
ES> installed one of Microsoft's "Critical Updates" there was some kind of
ES> incompatibility between them and the whole Win98 installation was screwed
ES> up. Unbootable, but finally managed to boot in safe mode and get it hobbling
ES> along a little. That's how I figured out what caused the problem.
ES> 2) Just recently, on Win 2000, the email scanner choked trying to scan an
ES> attachment (and since that's what it's there for...) and Outlook couldn't
ES> finish receiving mail. Had to disable mail scanning before I could finish
ES> getting my mail. Had seen this on Win98 too.
ES> 3) Also on Win2K, attempting to install a small (2 Meg) app I downloaded,
ES> Norton tried to scan it before it ran (as it should) but never finished and
ES> was sucking up 98% of the CPU's time. Had to disable that.
ES> 4) And again on Win2K, it swelled the size of my registry beyond any reason
ES> at all - Windows started complaining that the allocated registry space was
ES> too small and I needed to increase it. Finally reached 150 Meg. Uninstalled
ES> Norton and it dropped to 132. Still lots of crap left behind in there I'm
ES> going to have to clean out.
ES> And yes, the version is the right Win98/2000 version, so it's not out of
ES> date software.
ES> Geez, with protection like that, who needs a viri?
ES> Eddie
ES> 1971 Midget
ES> ----- Original Message -----
ES> From: "Robert Duquette" <RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca>
ES> To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
ES> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 4:11 PM
ES> Subject: Re: Virus ( Snow White ... ) + LBC Content!!!!!!!!
>> The virus is called "W95.Hybris.gen".
>>
>> Norton's site has the info:
>> http://service1.symantec.com/sarc/sarc.nsf/html/W95.Hybris.gen.html
>>
>> Robert D.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: IfixMGs@aol.com <IfixMGs@aol.com>
>> To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>> Date: February 4, 2001 9:26 AM
>> Subject: Re: Virus ( Snow White ... ) + LBC Content!!!!!!!!
>>
>>
>> > Does anyone have any published info on "Snow White"? I looked in
>> several
>> >virus and hoax sites and saw nothing related to that name.
>> > The mechanism that 99.99% of all viruses use (in order to slow,
ES> impede
>> or
>> >stop internet/intranet/pc function) is the web itself. Toss one message
ES> out
>> >to 8 people, who respond in kind to 8 more who respond to 64 and before
ES> you
>> >know it, every computer user in the word has seen the picture of the
>> >lumber-laden econobox from Maryland... Toss enough "inquiring minds
ES> ought
>> >to be informed" messages out, and eventually the net slows down. If you
>> saved
>> >every horror story signed by the "Director of Security" your computer is
>> >certainly going to be slower. My old 486 crashed once a few hours after
>> >downloading an exe from a certified site. I sent out a thousand messages
>> >that no doubt spanned the globe in an hour. The crash was purely
>> >coincidental, due to a mechanical failure in the drive. So, I sent out
>> >another bazillion sorry messages, clogging the sewers that carry the
>> detritus
>> >of the information superhighway....
>> > Get a good virus scanner, and subscribe to one of the urban
>> >legends/real virus sites. But be careful downloading - they might just
ES> have
>> a
>> >built in virus.... I heard that one computer virus checker is actually a
>> hoax
>> >and allows hackers to piggyback into everyone's hard drive....
>> > Mark Childers
>> > Director of Digital Security @ myhouse.inc
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Best regards,
Bill
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