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finnegan
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 Posted - Fri Jul 18, 2003 9:49 am
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Has anyone tried this. I am afraid I might be terribly infected on my home computer, but I don't know if this will really help.
Any ideas?
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djwayne
Location: USA
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Posted - Fri Jul 18, 2003 11:35 am
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I've had very good luck with Norton's Utilies to correct disc errors, and Norton's Anti-Virus to isolate and delete viruses. I usually just run the Anti-virus from the disc, and don't keep it installed on my hard drive, because for some reason, it conflicts with other programs and my computer runs better without it. I've made it a habit NOT to open unsolicted e-mails & spam, because some have viruses attached. One email I get with an E-Bay reference to it, totally trashes my MSN e-mail box. It's fixable very easy by just using the Windows ME system resore.
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VoodooRadio
Location: USA
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Posted - Fri Jul 18, 2003 12:04 pm
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| One email I get with an E-Bay reference to it, totally trashes my MSN e-mail box. |
Your not the first person I've seen make mention of that. FWIW, I get a (similiar) email about once a month that claims to be eBay requesting that I "update" my information. I've been a member since the start of eBay and have NEVER "updated" any info. I don't have any problems logging on and using the site. I delete the emails without opening them. 
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Wildduck
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Posted - Fri Jul 18, 2003 4:11 pm
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I am using Norton SystemWorks on a number of machines here together with Norton Firewall from some other Norton package. The firewall can be set to give huge amounts of information and to identify all sorts of phone home type software. I find this useful.
The antivirus can be set to check incoming emails as they arrive, and I am currently being alerted to one Klez a day that picks random names from someones address book as the to and from destinations. A few of us are trying to home in on the infected user.
Norton AV only intercepts POP3 mail collection, not the rarer smpte, so if your ISP uses that you will have to rely on the AV working when the file opens.
I find Norton very good, but (and this may be me) the more simple they make it for beginners, the more difficult I find it to make my way around the settings.
But while actually using the DAW, you really have to disable all this sort of software.
Other bits of Systemworks are quite useful, too. It contains, for example, a file wipe function for use after I use the machine to look at my accounts. With all this sort of software you have to be prepared to find the time to find your way around it.
Nothing is as simple as the adverts imply.
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MusicConductor
Location: USA
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Posted - Sat Jul 19, 2003 7:18 pm
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| I am currently being alerted to one Klez a day that picks random names from someones address book as the to and from destinations. A few of us are trying to hone in on the infected user. |
I've entrusted my systems to Norton AV for more than a year and found it to do a very good job. Someone else here -- it may have been Graeme -- made a recommendation for a product that was not only very good, but also costs nothing. I wish I knew what it was.
Wildduck, I hope those Klezes finally dry up for you as ours did a couple of months ago. Prior to that, I was receiving more of those than I had legit emails for awhile!
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| I find Norton very good, but (and this may be me) the more simple they make it for beginners, the more difficult I find it to make my way around the settings. |
Hmmm... I've recently had a similar feeling about Roxio's EZ CD Creator 6. The DVD portion of it is a mix of ingenuity and utter disaster. The overall navigation is confusing (oversimplification of too many options). Version 5 is better!
These are good examples of overdoing a good thing. I hope Adobe doesn't get too inspired in making over Cool Edit Pro, as it still is amazingly intuitive for all the power of its features.
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bonnder
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Graeme
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Posted - Sun Jul 27, 2003 5:31 am
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| Someone else here -- it may have been Graeme -- made a recommendation for a product that was not only very good, but also costs nothing. I wish I knew what it was. |
Perhaps it was the basic ZoneAlarm, which is free, from this site:
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp
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There are two products I recommend on a regular basis when this conversation crops up. Zone Alarm is on of them - however, this is a firewall, not an antivirus program.
For AV, I favour EZ Antivirus
http://www.my-etrust.com/products/Antivirus.cfm
This is not free - the good things in life rarely are - but it very reasonably priced at $24.95 for the first year and $12.95 per year afterwards. For this you get automatic updating and a host of other useful little features. Updates come on almost a daily basis, these guys seem to be on top of the problem. Personally, I think it's one of the better investments I have made over the years.
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VoodooRadio
Location: USA
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Posted - Sun Jul 27, 2003 8:26 am
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After years of using McAfee, we switched to Norton, 2-3 years ago and haven't experienced any problems. They too send updates almost daily.
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MusicConductor
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Posted - Sun Jul 27, 2003 3:07 pm
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Thank you for setting us straight, gentlemen! And I just did one of
those $13 annual subscriptions -- for Norton.
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