nexusgroove Posted August 21 Report Share Posted August 21 got to wear a jimmy........this summer/fall is going to be bad with virus attacts most attacking email servers and NT PC's. there is one zoo virus that leaked and some people are going to have some serious damage to their PC's..I suggest norton anti-virus pro 2003 for best protection.good luck. and defrage ur drives.! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pod Posted August 21 Report Share Posted August 21 Not necessarily, my friend is on a Mac, and even though the virus doesn't directly affect him, he has to deal with all the incoming emails... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobeton Posted August 21 Report Share Posted August 21 Zone Alarm + Spam Eraser + common sense = less headaches;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexusgroove Posted August 21 Report Share Posted August 21 Originally posted by sobeton Zone Alarm + Spam Eraser + common sense = less headaches;) toooo much control.... software like that has so much control... it pop's up with question almost for ever move u make, depending in how you set it up...but yes.... it will protect ur pc.one of the new visrus is selfmind.... doesn't need email to travel. it just lerks around on networks finding weak firewalls or non protected computers to clone to. once in ur pc it will set a activation date... like a time bomb to start fucking with a user. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschoolny Posted August 21 Report Share Posted August 21 MS anti virus the best hahaha no offense saleen. I used to work with the virus companies directly and more then one and they are all reactionary programs and in all honesty they suck but people are happy with them so they won't change until one of their big contracts tells them too.Message Labs is the best there is out there but its for corp users only.I haven't used av on my computer in years and have never gotten a virus.If users were just smart and didnt open everything they get we wouldnt have this big a problem (and yes i know there are viruses that don't need interaction.) for the non interaction its called blocking attachments and if you really need something like POD said zip it and pw it. Social engineering is a beautiful thing.And yes I know what I am talking about i get paid to do security testing on large corp and gov networks. And don't say why do we still have these problems because if they dont want to implement our recommendations then there is nothing we can do.Just becareful and don't open every attachment you get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
absolutv Posted August 21 Report Share Posted August 21 im getting slammed at work by the WELCH Viruson our networks in the US, Europe & the Ships..It seems like a never ending battle...of patching & removing.. what makes this worse is all the mobile laptop users..i can say it seems worse than NIMDA...as for the SOBIG email virus..i havent gotten one..i think earthlink must be running a filter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobeton Posted August 21 Report Share Posted August 21 Originally posted by nexusgroove toooo much control.... software like that has so much control... it pop's up with question almost for ever move u make, depending in how you set it up...but yes.... it will protect ur pc.one of the new visrus is selfmind.... doesn't need email to travel. it just lerks around on networks finding weak firewalls or non protected computers to clone to. once in ur pc it will set a activation date... like a time bomb to start fucking with a user. true dat ! all my alerts are set pretty high. I feel sorry for NA's , they are going to have some rocky roads ahead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rampage23 Posted August 21 Report Share Posted August 21 I know you guys diss out AOL...But the only reason why i dont get viruses, is becuase AOL virus scans all your emails before its sent to you. AOL 9.0 optimized just came out:cool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pod Posted August 22 Report Share Posted August 22 Bleh, I'm not gonna get the retard service just because it blocks virii automatically...my email server does that anyway, and I don't have to sell out to those fucks in Reston, VA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcrespo Posted August 22 Report Share Posted August 22 qmail+spamassassin+qmailscanner=happy email users. opensource is the way forward Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livin42nite Posted August 22 Report Share Posted August 22 Let me give u an example of how messed up this virus is. At mi casa in haiti got a router with 5 comps in there now one of the computers gets the virus we fix it up, but now the virus is comin from the router itself. So anytime we connect any computer to that router virus goes to that computer, you clean it up and some other person who is also connected to that router from outside gets it and it comes back to you again. Imagine for places like hotels or dorms that have that virus and people all connected to the same network. Shit just keeps going around and around to everybody. The biggest headache for an isp with that virus is not the people's computers though but the internet itself is really slow and the outgoing traffic is really high as everybody's comps are just pumping out the virus traffic out there. It's been very weird looking at that and seeing ougoing traffic being higher then the incoming traffic. Strange sight, and if u use windows xp update update update. They had 4 security updates yesterday alone from what I was told. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgeacasta2 Posted August 22 Report Share Posted August 22 Originally posted by livin42nite Let me give u an example of how messed up this virus is. At mi casa in haiti got a router with 5 comps in there now one of the computers gets the virus we fix it up, but now the virus is comin from the router itself. So anytime we connect any computer to that router virus goes to that computer, you clean it up and some other person who is also connected to that router from outside gets it and it comes back to you again. Imagine for places like hotels or dorms that have that virus and people all connected to the same network. Shit just keeps going around and around to everybody. The biggest headache for an isp with that virus is not the people's computers though but the internet itself is really slow and the outgoing traffic is really high as everybody's comps are just pumping out the virus traffic out there. It's been very weird looking at that and seeing ougoing traffic being higher then the incoming traffic. Strange sight, and if u use windows xp update update update. They had 4 security updates yesterday alone from what I was told. sheesh, I should'v read your whole post. I made a long winded post on how to fix this shit and then realized you know how to fix it LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest saleen351 Posted August 22 Report Share Posted August 22 foxnews reported last night this one was the biggest ever, but it seems to be undercontrol, i haven't gotten any emails yet, unlike yesterdays 30 or so i got... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livin42nite Posted August 22 Report Share Posted August 22 Originally posted by saleen351 foxnews reported last night this one was the biggest ever, but it seems to be undercontrol, i haven't gotten any emails yet, unlike yesterdays 30 or so i got... It's still alive and kicking, yeah more people are workin on it with a better understanding of it, but its still there and big time. It's only 9:45 am so expect a crapload later on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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