----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Ogden" <na9d@speakeasy.net>
To: "carl seyersdahl" <carlseye@tampabay.rr.com>; "Jim Smith"
<jimsmith@bigvalley.net>; <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: [AMPS] about one of the latest v's
> V-i-r-u-s software is ONLY as good as the v-i-r-u-s definitions it
contains.
> If a new V strikes your machine and you don't have the latest definitions
> loaded, then it will do nothing to stop it. In the same way, if the V is
> brand new and Symantec or any of the other folks haven't written a
detection
> algorithm for it, nothing will stop it. Usually the software companies
> write stuff pretty quickly.
As I said, this was a well known w-o-r-m. I got it on my home computer 2
years earlier. The software had only been in use a couple months at work
when the incident occured.
> For something like $5 a year, you can subscribe to Symantec's v updates
for
> Norton. If you don't do that, don't blame the software for not catching
the
> V when it hit your machine.
Who said we didn't do that? We had a subscription, and had the computers
set up to automatically connect to the Symantec site for an update every two
weeks I believe it was. Most of the time, there was no update available.
When there was, it was installed.
> Norton Anti-V is an extremely good piece of software. But it only knows
to
> look for what you tell it to look for via the definitions that you load
into
> it.
All the definitions Norton had were loaded into it. It's not very good
if it's asleep at the wheel when the time comes for it to act.
>
> 73,
>
> Jon
> NA9D
Jim Smith, KQ6UV
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