Use the e-mail program The Bat! It won't let you open attachments with certain extensions, and with others it warns you that there is a risk. This, plus a good antivirus which removes viruses from attachments makes it very difficult to get infected. Very simple.
-- Best regards, Bil Green 2001 TV VCR Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546 760-934-2001 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Saturday, January 31, 2004, 7:58:59 AM, you wrote: IVS> Wayne, IVS> You said...Not allow attachments to be opened or saved that could be IVS> infected. IVS> This is OK if you get no attachments from anyone, but Outlook will strip a lot of attachments that are OK. IVS> You said...you should tell the email program to convert everything to IVS> plain text IVS> This is a really good idea and would be even better if others would learn to post in plain text...big IVS> problem for getting NESDA mail, since most people send in HTML. Getting two hundred emails a day, these IVS> take longer to decipher when converted to plain text. IVS> Jeff Dougherty IVS> Intrepid Video TV/VCR IVS> 263 S Front St IVS> Steelton PA 17113 IVS> fax...717-564-4952 IVS> www.intrepid-video.com www.tech-repair.net IVS> ----- Original Message ----- IVS> From: "Wayne Vanaman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IVS> To: "ELECTRONICS PROFESSIONALS LIST" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IVS> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 8:02 AM IVS> Subject: Re: [Techs] WHO DONE IT!!!!! IVS> There is no point in doing daily updates if you only scan once a week. One IVS> of the benifits of leaving a computer turned on is the ability to update at IVS> midnight and scan at 1AM. A full, complete, all-files scan. If it take IVS> four hours who cares? IVS> I use grisoft AVG. I like it because it will do the email stuff, strips IVS> attachments, can scan accross a network. Scanning across a network is a IVS> plus. If you have a suspected infected (hey, I'm a poet) computer, even if IVS> it has an AV program installed that says there is nothing wrong, you can IVS> scan it from another machine. IVS> Also, although a little inconvienent, but in my opinion not too IVS> inconvenient, you should tell the email program to convert everything to IVS> plain text, and to Not allow attachments to be opened or saved that could be IVS> infected. If you do that then nobody can release a virus onto your system. IVS> If you really want to see that email in HTML then you can temporarily change IVS> your settings, look at it/save it whatever, and the Put It Back they way it IVS> was. IVS> Is your downtime really worth seeing pretty typeface in your emails? IVS> Wayne Vanaman IVS> Omega Electronics IVS> 6904 W Fairfield Dr IVS> Pensacola, Fl. 32506-3310 IVS> [EMAIL PROTECTED] IVS> WWW.PensacolaTVRepair.Com IVS> 850-456-5995 voice IVS> 850-458-6369 fax IVS> ----- Original Message ----- IVS> From: "Mark Wentowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IVS> To: "ELECTRONICS PROFESSIONALS LIST" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IVS> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 5:45 PM IVS> 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 IVS> 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 IVS> 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 IVS> 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 IVS> 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 IVS> 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 >> IVS> _______________________________________________ IVS> Tech Repair CD...order your just $49.00 plus shipping...One year of updates free. 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