I use pegasus a good freebie for my mail on windows. It allows you to look at your mail on the server before you download it and delete what you don't want. Some how or other I got my windows xp infected with swen probably a double click while tired and avg freebie told me I had it and to run avg for windows which I did to get rid of it but avg didn't. I tried many, bullguard, avg pro, avast32, ran all the freebie removers, manyh online scans but it stayed. Eventually I downloaded norton antivirus which removed it. But obviously other people still have it because it is still arriving from people I don't know through yahoo mail. So I no longer send it to myself BTW it is a boot sector virus too. So you may remove it from memory but it will be back unless you get it out of boot.
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 11:01, rikona wrote: > Hello Richard, > > Sunday, October 19, 2003, 5:52:45 PM, you wrote: > > RU> On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 9:05 pm, Dick Gevers wrote: > > RU> My sister currently has 1479 messages on her ISP's POP3 server > RU> waiting to be downloaded, probably 99.9% Swen, so 100K each on a > RU> 40K dialup line. She's ditched the ISP and gone to Compu$erve > RU> (argh!). > > My sympathies. I used to use Compuserve. Yech. > > RU> Currently she still doesn't have email setup, nor an email client > RU> apart from Lookout, an antivirus package or a firewall. > > This needs a bit of redoing. :-) > > RU> My current thoughts are Pegasus, Mozilla, Spybot S&D. > > If you use Proxomitron and DNSkong with the pre-configured files I > mentioned in an earlier note, there is a rather small chance of > getting any spyware. If you surf porn, hacking, or other nefarious > sites, use Spybot once in a while, and it would be best to add a > Trojan scanner as well. > > RU> Don't know whether to go Mcafee or AVG (or some other.) > > Forget Mcafee. AVG is OK. The MOST important thing is to get rid of > ALL M$ software, though, except the OS. This will help you FAR more > than all the after-the-fact fixes you can add to the M$ pile of junk. > > RU> Howabout firewalls? > > See my earlier note. > > RU> In the longer term she could probably handle Linux, but the lack > RU> of an MS Publisher clone is holding her back. Any answers for > RU> that? > > Two machines, or dual boot? Run MS Publisher only when she MUST do it, > and run ONLY that on Win. Email, surf, news, etc, in linux.
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