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| Thread ID: 14578 | 2002-01-12 19:01:00 | Old McCafee anD Norton uselesS | Guest (0) | Press F1 |
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| 30960 | 2002-01-12 19:01:00 | Yesterday I went too a friends computer and their friend (distant relative, in fact), The friend asked about updating his old Norton, So I download the free AVG program from http://www.grisoft.com and it picked up a couple effected files ' JS/KAK@m ' (without the quotes) virus via a E-mail, The AVG program gave the name and E-mail address of the person who sent the effected E-mail.(and I could see the E-mail in the Outlook Express inbox THIS E-MAIL DID NOT HAVE ANY ATTACHMENTS WITH IT, when the scan finished it took it away and put it in a Virus vault, The other computer had a Win32/magistr.B virus This just proves that to have a old Virus program on your computer, you may as well not have any going, and once again if you do not update it, you may as well turn it off after a few months, as it will only pick up the old virus, The other free anti-virus program Anti-vir from http://www.free-av.com/ takes longer than AVG as it un-zips all your ZIPed up files and checks to see if there is a virus in these ZIPes you have on the hard drive. Take care, and if you are not sure what to give someone for a birthday or Christmas present, Give them a 'Rode Code' (without the quotes) it might save your life. |
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| 30961 | 2002-01-13 02:50:00 | Just to add, AVG will also search zip files internally if you set that as an option when configuring the Complete Test. It is turned off by default though. | Guest (0) | ||
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