I trust McAfee, too. I run EZ Antivirus, but McAfee would be my second
choice no doubt. Norton failed to catch the virus which brought me to my
knees twice within the past couple of weeks, so as you can imagine I'm not
real impressed with that product. Of course I realize it's impossible to
identify all problem files when they first come out. But I notice that my
EZ software has no problem at all identifying and automatically locking and
isolating "suspect" packages such as these Sir Cam batch files, whereas
Norton couldn't handle. Now perhaps I just didn't have Norton configured
properly, but then I'd want to know, "then why was Norton so much harder to
configure than EZ?" It took me about ten seconds to figure out which
options to select with EZ--in fact, I merely chose the defaults! <g>
In any event it's good to hear you're high and dry. God help anyone foolish
enough to click on one of these beasties, though.
Tris
At 02:57 PM 7/24/01 -0700, you wrote:
Count yourself lucky Tris. I've had, at the very least, upwards from a dozen
copies emailed to me in the last 24 hours, NOT counting the ones through
this list. Every one caught and clobbered by good ol' McAfee, lucky for me.
---
Scott Gomez
-----Original Message-----
From: Tris Schuler [mailto:tristanjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Subject: [OM] Re: Our virus friend is at it again
Well, I just received another friendly invitation to open up a nasty batch
file. Here's the text.
<snippage>
This is getting about half serious!
Tris
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