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Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 12:42:13 -0500
From: "Lee Karam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: antivirus
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I have been under the misconception that a good antivirus program prevented
a virus from entering your computer. I bought the eTrust EZ Armor package,
though I use only the firewall and antivirus. I check for updates everal
times a week (daily, if there seems to be a lot of activity) and never open
attachments. But, when I ran a virus check this week, it showed 7 files
infected with klez.
If an antivirus program won't keep out a virus, is there any real value to
having one? Don't worry about this email--I'm clean now.
Lee
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<DIV><FONT face="Cooper Md BT" size=2>I have been under the misconception that a
good antivirus program prevented a virus from entering your computer. I
bought the eTrust EZ Armor package, though I use only the firewall and
antivirus. I check for updates everal times a week (daily, if there seems
to be a lot of activity) and <EM>never</EM> open attachments. But,
when I ran a virus check this week, it showed 7 files infected with
klez.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Cooper Md BT" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Cooper Md BT" size=2>If an antivirus program won't keep out a
virus, is there any real value to having one? Don't worry about this
email--I'm clean now.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Cooper Md BT" size=2>Lee</FONT></DIV>
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Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 15:17:22 -0400
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Subject: Re: * informant * antivirus
Hi Lee!
I'm surprised. I use EZ Trust Antivirus, and it has never failed me yet.
I download the updates daily as well (they seem to update it at least once
a day Mon-Fri), and it has always caught any viruses as the emails were
coming in. I'm in Ilion, NY and Road Runner here even got infected and I
received about 8 messages around the same time from various addresses, and
it caught them all.
The only thing I can think of is the timing. Maybe you were an early
recipient of K l e z before the virus definitions were updated in which
case it wouldn't have known to stop it. It's the only thing I can think of.
I use the antivirus only, I'm currently using Zone Alarm for my firewall.
Take care,
Ray
At 01:42 PM 6/2/2002, you wrote:
>I have been under the misconception that a good antivirus program
>prevented a virus from entering your computer. I bought the eTrust EZ
>Armor package, though I use only the firewall and antivirus. I check for
>updates everal times a week (daily, if there seems to be a lot of
>activity) and never open attachments. But, when I ran a virus check this
>week, it showed 7 files infected with klez.
>
>If an antivirus program won't keep out a virus, is there any real value to
>having one? Don't worry about this email--I'm clean now.
>
>Lee
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