Yet another virus

From: Arthur Clark <aclark_at_envirolink.org>
Date: Fri Jan 5 17:13:46 2001

These viruses shouldn't be a problem for Windows users either. For various
job-related reasons, I have been using Windows for email for 5 years
now. I have never had a single successful infection. Any decent virus
scanner, kept updated, will keep you protected.

The real threat now is trojans that can install themselves disguised as a
legitimate zip, mov, avi, mpg, etc file. You click, it downloads &
installs, game over. Fdisk & reinstall Windows. I just went through
that. Trojan Defence Suite does a great job of monitoring potential trojan
installations. See http://www.diamondcs.com.au

Arthur Clark


At 04:45 PM 1/5/01 -0500, you wrote:
>On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 08:25:24 -0800 (PST),
>healyzh_at_aracnet.com wrote:
>
> >> DO NOT Open "Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!" It has =
> >> the W95.Hybris.Gen.dr virus.
> >
> >Gee, didn't bother my Mac at all :^) Doubt it would bother the UNIX box I'm
> >reading mail from now :^)
> >
>I haven't ever had a virus on my PC, which has been up
>(with upgrades) since 1994. Of course, I am running OS/2.
>
>Really, people should be careful about falling out of
>Windows :-).
>
>Louis
Received on Fri Jan 05 2001 - 17:13:46 GMT

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