At 05:01 PM 30/11/2001 -0500, Tom Scales wrote:
>There is a good free virus checker, AVG, at http://www.grisoft.com
>
>The best firewall is free : C:\Program Files\Zone
>Labs\ZoneAlarm\Help\ZoneAlarm_Help.htm
>ZoneAlarm protects against attacks from outside (hackers), and from
>inside (viruses). I don't know if it would help on mail attacks like this
>one.
It does, actually -- the virus comes in as an embedded attachment (in Eudora,
anyways), with a .PIF or .SCR extension. ZoneAlarm and ZoneAlarm Pro are
configured to immediately rename these extensions so that they're not
executable. In Eudora, just go into your /Attach folder and delete the little
buggers -- then empty your Recycle Bin.
Garth
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