I have been using MS Security Essentials on the Windows machines since it came out, and have not "caught" anything. It did alert me to the virus on the okiebenz.com site. Another good practice to avoid matware if you frequently browse likely infected sites, is to run a virtual machine for that browsing with a differencing disk If you get infected, just restart without saving the changes.
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Rick Knoble <[email protected]> wrote: > > I forgot to add that all of my machines are set up with an Owner account as > the administrator, with separate accounts for other users that are NOT > administrators, (including my own account). I also set up guest accounts for > any company that requires the use of a computer. This practice saved me a > lot of work on at least one occasion. I was surfing the web and picked up a > virus on my account (Avira virus alert popped up, ect.). I immediately shut > the machine down and re-booted into the administrator account and did a > virus and malware scan. I removed the bad stuff and logged back in to my > primary (non-administrator) account. For some reason, I had no sound and no > internet, so I logged back into the admin account and backed up any > important files in my non-admin account. I then deleted the non-admin > account and re-booted the computer. I logged in to the admin account again, > created a new non-admin account for myself, logged into the newly recreated > non-admin account and restored the backups. I took less time (nearly) than > typing this. It took WAY less time than formatting and rebuild from scratch. > Just another thought. > > Rick -- OK Don 2001 ML320 1992 300D 2.5T 1990 300D 2.5T 1997 Plymouth Grand Voyager _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
