Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?'
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Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?'
Monday, January 21, 2002 at 11:27 am
Posted by Rob
(2 messages posted)
I have a question about How
do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?:
RESPONSE; PURCHASE A RELIABLE ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM FROM NORTON OR MC AFEE.
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re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?'
Monday, January 21, 2002 at 11:39 am
Posted by Brian Orford
(1435 messages posted)
Get an Anti virus program and use it and update it regularly.
Here's a link to a good free one.
Brian
http://www.grisoft.com/html/us_index.htm
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re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?'
Monday, January 21, 2002 at 11:40 am
Posted by Bobstur
(2225 messages posted)
And/or use a firewall such as ZoneAlarm.
Bob Sturtevant
http://home.adelphia.net/~bobstur/
Please reply in the forum and let us know.
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re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?'
Monday, January 21, 2002 at 11:58 am
Posted by Brian Orford
(1435 messages posted)
Bob, the only feature I don't like and don't use with Zone Alarm is
the one that renames email attachment extensions. I had an awful
time trying to open the attachment when I wanted to. By the way, I
visited an University site yesterday and got pinged twice (blocked
by Zone Alarm) afterwards. Were they attempting to hack me?
Brian
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re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?'
Monday, January 21, 2002 at 12:33 pm
Posted by Bobstur
(2225 messages posted)
Brian, I agree it's a pain to be changing extensions but I need maximum protection
with my computer illiterate family Networked in on another machine.
Regarding the pings that ZA picks up, I've traced a few but never found out what
might have happened without ZA. I'm totally dumb when it comes to that kind of hacking.
Bob Sturtevant
http://home.adelphia.net/~bobstur/
Please reply in the forum and let us know.
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re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?'
Monday, January 21, 2002 at 12:55 pm
Posted by CoolSights2000
(983 messages posted)
The best way to protect your self is to have OE use the restricted site zone settings
in the restricted zone turn everthing to disable off or prompt
when you down load the restrict site list and unzip it it will have a read me file
on how to set it up....
Click here to learn
more
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re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?'
Tuesday, January 22, 2002 at 1:31 am
Posted by Colin
(190 messages posted)
Sometimes when you visit sites they attempt to keep track of who has visited them.
I don't really know how it works, but it seems to result in a ZoneAlarm alert. Nothing
to worry about I don't think.
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re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?'
Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 1:59 pm
Posted by tracy
(3 messages posted)
this is a suggestion a friend gave to me set up a new contact with name !000
and and e-mail address such as wormvirus@any domain.com
what this does it puts this contact first on your address book if a worm is present
you will get an undeliverable email error then if yoiu get this take proper procedures
to get rid of
On Monday, January 21, 2002 at 11:27 am, Rob wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?:
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>RESPONSE; PURCHASE A RELIABLE ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM FROM NORTON OR MC AFEE.
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re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?'
Sunday, April 4, 2004 at 2:04 pm
Posted by johnny14
(6 messages posted)
with an antivirus software, also try using an anti-spam software. a good one is
Mailwasher Pro from www.firebreach.com. It's free for the first 30 days, then you
can purchase it after. It works excellent in alerting you to keep spam and viruses
away from your mail.
On Monday, January 21, 2002 at 11:27 am, Rob wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?:
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>RESPONSE; PURCHASE A RELIABLE ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM FROM NORTON OR MC AFEE.
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