There is no point in doing daily updates if you only scan once a week. One of the benifits of leaving a computer turned on is the ability to update at midnight and scan at 1AM. A full, complete, all-files scan. If it take four hours who cares?
I use grisoft AVG. I like it because it will do the email stuff, strips attachments, can scan accross a network. Scanning across a network is a plus. If you have a suspected infected (hey, I'm a poet) computer, even if it has an AV program installed that says there is nothing wrong, you can scan it from another machine. Also, although a little inconvienent, but in my opinion not too inconvenient, you should tell the email program to convert everything to plain text, and to Not allow attachments to be opened or saved that could be infected. If you do that then nobody can release a virus onto your system. If you really want to see that email in HTML then you can temporarily change your settings, look at it/save it whatever, and the Put It Back they way it was. Is your downtime really worth seeing pretty typeface in your emails? Wayne Vanaman Omega Electronics 6904 W Fairfield Dr Pensacola, Fl. 32506-3310 [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW.PensacolaTVRepair.Com 850-456-5995 voice 850-458-6369 fax ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Wentowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ELECTRONICS PROFESSIONALS LIST" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 5:45 PM Subject: RE: [Techs] WHO DONE IT!!!!! > Jeff, I know firsthand how much money can be lost when a business gets a > virus in the system. I use Norton and get automatic daily updates. On Friday > nights Norton does a complete virus scan of all the drives. Am I doing > enough? If a computer does get infected but Norton says they are clean how > can we find out about it? > > Mark Wentowski > Perry Hill Electronics > 3836 Harrison Rd. > Montgomery AL 36109 > phone: (334)279-5622 > fax: (334)273-9050 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Intrepid Video > Support > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 9:21 AM > To: Tech List > Subject: [Techs] WHO DONE IT!!!!! > > > I have one thing to say, if I find out who on this list got infected, you > will be permanently banned from > this list! > There is no friggin excuse to get infected. Vir*ses have been around for a > long time and every > professional on this list should be able to detect a suspicious email. > Just because your anti-vir*s did not detect the attachment, DOES NOT mean it > is safe. > This one came out before I had the updates in my Norton, but it grew > suspicion, so I updated my > definitions... > The only way some of you will learn, is if one of these things wipe your > hard drive... > Use common sense!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > This has created much havoc on this list with 10-20 rejected posts regarding > this infection..there is no > excuse...everyone on here should be smart enough to protect themselves.. > > > Jeff Dougherty > Intrepid Video TV/VCR > 263 S Front St > Steelton PA 17113 > fax...717-564-4952 > www.intrepid-video.com www.tech-repair.net > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Repair CD...order your just $49.00 plus shipping...One year of updates > free. > www.intrepid-video.com www.tech-repair.net > Techs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://intrepid-video.com/mailman/listinfo/techs_intrepid-video.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech Repair CD...order your just $49.00 plus shipping...One year of updates free. > www.intrepid-video.com www.tech-repair.net > Techs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://intrepid-video.com/mailman/listinfo/techs_intrepid-video.com > _______________________________________________ Tech Repair CD...order your just $49.00 plus shipping...One year of updates free. www.intrepid-video.com www.tech-repair.net Techs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://intrepid-video.com/mailman/listinfo/techs_intrepid-video.com
