I believe that the ".zl3" renaming of executable files is done by Eudora
Pro as quarantine for these attachments. I also use Zonelabs' Zone Alarm
that serves as a second line. I have to go through 4 pop up dialog boxes
before I can run or view an attachment which isn't often. With these two
utilities and the policy of never downloading untrusted executables I have
been virus free and never needed an antivirus program. I find anti-virus
software to take up valuable system resources and slows your machine down.
At 11:11 AM Wednesday 25/07/2001, you wrote:
I trust McAfee, too. I run EZ Antivirus, but McAfee would be my second
choice no doubt. Norton failed to catch the virus which brought me to my
knees twice within the past couple of weeks, so as you can imagine I'm not
real impressed with that product. Of course I realize it's impossible to
identify all problem files when they first come out. But I notice that my
EZ software has no problem at all identifying and automatically locking
and isolating "suspect" packages such as these Sir Cam batch files,
whereas Norton couldn't handle. Now perhaps I just didn't have Norton
configured properly, but then I'd want to know, "then why was Norton so
much harder to configure than EZ?" It took me about ten seconds to figure
out which options to select with EZ--in fact, I merely chose the defaults! <g>
In any event it's good to hear you're high and dry. God help anyone
foolish enough to click on one of these beasties, though.
Tris
At 02:57 PM 7/24/01 -0700, you wrote:
Count yourself lucky Tris. I've had, at the very least, upwards from a dozen
copies emailed to me in the last 24 hours, NOT counting the ones through
this list. Every one caught and clobbered by good ol' McAfee, lucky for me.
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Scott Gomez
-----Original Message-----
From: Tris Schuler [mailto:tristanjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Subject: [OM] Re: Our virus friend is at it again
Well, I just received another friendly invitation to open up a nasty batch
file. Here's the text.
<snippage>
This is getting about half serious!
Tris
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