Active Virus Alerts

EWW nasty..... thanks for the info IPlural.

yeppers

figure with so many online and such, something like this might come in handy...

specially when or if someones system starts burping all over the place for no apparent reason. Some of these things can actually shut down your virus scanners and such and you don't have to open any attachments for them to do it either, just view an HTML format email and if scripting and such happens to be allowed, bingo..

I only went on a website last week and BANG! the App-Tubmo-B trojan was in my sytem. I ended up having to format.

Well, you'd have to be pretty dumn to open something like that....
anyway, my Norton's would intercept it before it even got downloaded to my Inbox...

but thanks anyway, IP+

m, Jafo, can the name of a thread be changed?

reading this, maybe it should be deleted and started with Active Internet Virus Alerts or some such if it is ok to run one on the topic?

Yay of Neigh on keeping it active, even with a name switch isn't an issue, if it is seen as redundant then I m for drilling it's hull

what I used is a bit ambigious and if it's not painted in BIG BOLD letters some will freak and wigout....

Jam not always....
and that is a fact which both Mcafee and Norton had to admit to...

Well, all I know is every time someone tried to send me some nasty virus or trojan horse in an email it was intercepted by NAV 2003 before it was even downloaded.

which is a good thing

Norton detected and marked the variant kaak worm files on my sytem, but was totally incapable of quarantining or deleting them! Lotta good, right? had to use an ancient set of pseudo-unix, that does all its own dirty work and doesn't make system-type calls to DOS or Windows. snuffed Mr. kaak straightaway and didn't have to reformat, but this jolted my faith in NAV a little. >

lol.

.com (internet suffix) != .com (file extension).

easy to see why so many people fall for it, though.

Lol that sucks Bangkokboy. That reminds me of spycop where it will search your computer for spyware but won't remove it just letting you know it's there .

I use plenty other spyware/adware programs so using it is really not necessary.


Good lookin IPlural although I'll never open an email with an attachment unless I know the person is seding it.

lPlural...no, can't be changed, only deleted....but there's nothing 'wrong' with the title as it is...

But Al Jules, notice it propagates through Address books coming from the sender who would know you and you them

I mean for those who wouldn't put that together, those are the ones I was thinking of when starting the thread. Kind of a way to pass on info and help understanding before they learn the hard way

anyone remember "Stoned" or "Ambulance" ?

how about the one that made just the "\" key go away form use in the char-map of your ketboard ...

if I could have found the one did that one..... lol

or the one where the chars on your screen would start dropping one, and then in a bit another and then a few and then all pile up on the lower "floor" of your screen

anyway...

Every week or so i do an online scan aswell as a NAV scan. last week i scanned at trend.
It picked up 26 so called "viruses" in just 'My Documents'
"Holy S**T!" where my first words, until i saw that EVERY one of them was an exe and every exe was a real program that i had saved to there!
Apparantly they were all the Hananter virus? anyone heard of that one?
Did a full system scan with NAV after getting an update, NOTHING not one teensy weensy lil bug to be found... Hmmmmm!
I always trusted trend but now my opinion is swaying!

"Don't have nightmares!"

Don't care what anyone says about NAV...
It works for me and has saved me many times over, so if you don't like it I really couldn't care less....

Agreed Jam. I've had nothing but good luck with NAV.

Heck - I've never had a problem with any of the Norton's utilities actually. I love my copy of Systemworks. I'd cry if I couldn't use speeddisk and had to go back to using MS' defrag (which doesn't do /nearly/ as well on an NTFS volume as Norton!)

They all use the same tactic.

I never open an Email if I am not positive in knowing who it came from, and even then I am always suspicious.

I am my own last line of defense, so if I get bombed, it's my fault.

That's right jake.... very smart of you...
and kthxbye... I'm with you all the way...

am I never said I didn't like Nav, it is actually the main one I put all client on, NIS 2003 Pro.

We run NAV Corporate on all servers and push to clients in some locations.

I've use Peter Norton's products since Norton Utilities fit on a 360k floppy.
Every now and then PC Tools but only when it was do or do without...

It isn't the company or the product specifically, but the whole industry revolving around Network security and virus protection, nothing, no one thing does it all, all of the time except one Firewall that I know of and it is the cheapest one on the market too...

Air Firewall, don't connect...

If you or anyone is totally secure and satisfied, power to you and I hope it never turns around on you, really. But I do not for the life of me understand the contention which started out at the begining of this thread to begin with, honestly.

As a matter of fact, it is even stated to go to Mcafee's and Norton's site for information, which pretty much indicate's the value seen in their products...



anyway...

am = and

dang, it isn't as if I don't spell bad enough, but the dang keys on the laptop stick or don't connect on the mag-pads when pressed

I have PC-Cillen 2003 And it has detected all the latest worms and removed them from my system although I do not know how I got them... I never open email attcahments.

I wasn't remarking about anything you said, IP...

I guess I can also say Norton Antivirus has never let me down either. Wouldn't use anything besides it.


I have found a better optimizer than Norton's speed disc.