[Shotimes] OT computer security

[Mike Wojton]

Actually our ISP is very good at filtering spam mail.  We only get a
few pieces every once in a while now.  When I do a virus scan I always
find some.  Most of the time they are "harmless".  We don't have a
bunch of funky add-on toolbars in IE so I guess it could be worse. 
The machine just runs slow.  There is some adware that I just can't
get rid of.  I think it's a combination of those and all the
"protection" I have running in the background that's doing it.

-- 
Mike Wojton
Dover, PA
 
   -'95 White MTX
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On 5/19/05, Silver Sleeper <silversleepersho@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Mike,
> 
> 
> You shouldn't have to uninstall and reinstall at all.  Typically a virus will trigger that to happen.  Since well known anti-virus programs are useless if you have to install them after your infected,  performing a reinstallation is exactly what is needed to get your computer even more buggy.
> 
> This happened to me not too long ago actually,  I ended up re-installing the OS instead.
> 
> What exactly is getting through Norton?  Are we talking just spam mail or actual Virii?
> 
> 
> SS