On Tuesday 21 Oct 2003 4:50 am, rikona wrote: > I mostly discussed privacy, but there is a lot of bad stuff > possible through the web also. If email attachments can be ruled > out, could it be spyware or a Trojan rather than a virus? > Kaspersky actually identified the viruses. Each time they have been one of the common-at-the-time ones.
> If she connects directly to the net, it is ESSENTIAL that she have > a firewall, IMHO. Way too risky without one. Given she uses no M$ > apps, this might be the biggest hole, and the source of her > problems. > I don't think it is the problem, in this case, given that she is not promiscuous in the kind of sites she browses, and that her av software was definite about the viruses found. I'm waiting for her to get back tomorrow, as Kaspersky will only talk to me about her licensed installation if I can give them sufficient identifiers - quite right too, but causing a delay. Hopefully they will be able to tell me how I can improve protection of her mail. If I get anything useful on that score I'll let you know. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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