[Dixielandjazz] Antivirus trick

[Williams, Bob]

Y'all:

Before this thread inspires the wrath of the content police, which should be
any second now, may I most heartily recommend AVG 6.0, which is a FREE virus
protection program that, as far as I'm concerned, totally kicks butt on any
competing product out there, commercial or not.  Including and especially
Norton.

I've been using it for a couple years.  It is easy to set up, will run a
daily scan of your whole system that you can schedule, updates itself
periodically with no involvement from you but an occasional reboot, and will
scan all your incoming and outgoing mail.  Very cool program.

Check it out at http://www.grisoft.com.

While I have no affiliation with this company, and recommend it only out of
deep affection for this group, and perhaps a mild sense of propitiation
after all the lead sheets I've been sent when I should have just written
them out myself, the lazy bastard, if you want to send me a dollar or two, I
won't object.

That was a joke.

Bob "Soupy" Williams 
The World's Most Modest Man and 
The Noumenal Leader of the Wooden Nickel Jass Band  
<http://wnjb.com> 


-----Original Message-----
From: David Livingston [mailto:snargi01 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 9:11 AM
To: Patrick Cooke; Rob Perry; DJML
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Antivirus trick


I think it's the same price for updating or buying a
new retail box. When my subscription runs out I go to
a computer show and buy a new program for $15-$20.
Then I get a year's worth of virus updates for half
price. 

--- Patrick Cooke <patcooke at cox.net> wrote:
> I recently picked up a virus that my Norton 2002
> Anti Virus would not get
> rid of.  It was just about time to renew the
> subscription, but instead I
> sprung for the 2003 version.  It took care of the
> problem.  It appears that
> the best procedure is to get a new one every year
> instead of just updating
> the old one.
>     Pat Cooke
>      WA4BVR/5
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rob Perry" <ke6jqh at ke6jqh.net>
> To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 6:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Antivirus trick
> 
> 
> > I don't usually, but it's time to say my piece on
> this. Unfortunately,
> > this trick is still circulating and it's given a
> lot of people a false
> > sense of security. Once upon a time, it was
> moderately effective. No
> > longer. Kak and its relatives were fairly
> unsophisticated worms, there
> > was a high degree of probability that this trick
> would alert the owner
> > of a system that something was wrong.
> >
> > I run a centrally managed anti-virus at work for
> nearly 2000 users. The
> > number one worm that we see a day is Klez and its
> variants. Of 15 to 20
> > alerts for Klez a day, our users only find out
> about it because I have
> > the anti-virus server set to tell them.
> >
> > Modern worms now use a technique that not only
> randomly pulls email
> > addresses from the address book, but also from the
> inbox and in some
> > cases other mail folders that may be on your
> system. In addition they
> > will also masquerade the sender.
> >
> > For instance, Alice, Bob, and Charlie are all
> friends. Alice gets hit
> > with Klez, and it emails Charlie. The email that
> it sends to Charlie
> > claims to be from Bob. Because of the way it
> alters the message, if the
> > message to Charlie bounces, Bob will get the
> non-delivery report instead
> > of Alice.
> >
> > True, it doesn't hurt anything to have a bogus
> email address.
> > Unfortunately, don't believe that it will actually
> alert you to
> > anything. If you have questions about how a worm
> or virus operates,
> > Symantec's Library is the best place to start.
> >
> > http://securityresponse.symantec.com/
> >
> > Rob Perry
> > ke6jqh at ke6jqh.net
> >
> >
> >
> > Phil O'Rourke wrote:
> > > John and others
> > >
> > > The method you stated has been talked about
> before. I am not sure which
> > > listmate gave the explanation why this does not
> work as it "logically"
> would
> > > seem to but I can remember the thread.
> > >
> > > It does seem like a good idea though.
> > >
> > > Phil O'Rourke
> > > Australia
> > >
> > >
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