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Re Protection?
Sunday, February 24, 2008 at 9:28 am
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Posted by Len (37 messages posted)


Just to follow up. The infections, Trojans, whatever, resulted from downloads of free utilities such as Afreeripper-----just in case you wondered? All were downloaded to desktop and scanned with both Adaware and AVG. Warned by Kapersky where to look,recently found Avast took them out. So Avast seems to score best------------?? Is this a common experience?


On Friday, February 22, 2008 at 10:29 am, Len wrote:
>The W2k forum has given me great leads to Adaware, AVG and Zonealarm.
>My ISP also runs a firewall. I ran Kapersky Online scan out of curiosity and it
>"found" 6 virus and 35 infections, although it was hard to decipher their report.
>I hadn't heard W2k was hard to protect now, where could I have left doors open? Is
>there a forum article I haven't found yet, explaining exact function and limitations
>of these protection softwares?


Written in response to:
Protection? (Len: Friday, February 22, 2008 at 10:29 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Re Protection? (Steve: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 8:09 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Protection? (Len: Fri, Feb 22, 2008, 10:29 am)
*re: Protection? (quick69gto: Fri, Feb 22, 2008, 1:20 pm)
-re: Protection? (Steve: Fri, Feb 22, 2008, 2:41 pm)
-re: Protection? (DEX: Fri, Feb 22, 2008, 3:21 pm)
*re: Protection? (Steve: Sat, Feb 23, 2008, 5:29 pm)
-Re Protection? (Len: Sun, Feb 24, 2008, 9:28 am)
*re: Re Protection? (Steve: Tue, Feb 26, 2008, 8:09 am)
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