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Re: [OM] Re: Our virus friend is at it again

Subject: Re: [OM] Re: Our virus friend is at it again
From: Larry <Halpert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 00:34:41 -0400
Did you update your Norton virus definitions within the last week or two? My
office got the Sircam virus sent, and Norton Anti-Virus 2000 picked it right up.
Super Simple.
Also, they have a specific Sircam Fix Tool on their website that anyone can
download if you've already been infected by opening one of those attachments,
etc. Cleans up the registry, and each false document..

To each his own... :)

Larry

Tris Schuler 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.
> >
> >---
> >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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