For those who don't have an anti-virus program you can download a demo
version of a program (NOD) at http://www.nod32.com . It's good for 25
days and you could at least check you computer real quick to see if you
have any viruses. My friend N8VW, who is a contester and works with us
on eham.net, recomended this program as being as good or better than
Norton. I value his opinion , since he is a very knowledgable computer
guy...
73's Jeff KU8E
--- "David L. Thompson" <thompson@mindspring.com> wrote:
> The klez and new bugbear virus continue to be received and caught by
> Norton.
> The klez virus is sent to appear that it comes from someone in your
> address
> book but this is just a ploy. The virus looks at the address book of
> the
> infected PC and sends e-mails back to you and I based on the sent and
> received address. We have no idea who is infected and if you track
> the
> e-mail back beyond the first address its a fake address. (and the
> actual
> sent address is over 50 characters long). So please don't send a
> message to
> the person telling them they are infected. I got messages from my
> sister
> and from a OH station that indicted a log was attached. The log is
> from a
> message but the virus is a second hidden attachment.
>
> The second (and real problem I had) was Norton failed to catch a worm
> that I
> finally got rid of last night. On recommendation of Earthlink
> support I ran
> many of the fixes and the bugbear fix found the worm (and then blew
> out!).
> At least I then found that Norton anti virus ran Ok after this (it
> was
> stopped). The scan found and deleted the PWS.Hooker.trojan that
> Norton did
> not catch. The only problem I have it deleted the internet security
> portion
> of Norton. On this PC I run W95 Version 2 so only Norton 2001 will
> work. I
> have to find a way to get the software back as I do not have the
> original
> CD-ROM. I ran an update 45 days ago but trying to determine if the
> update
> (run again) will re-install security (firewalls).
>
> Just be careful.
>
> 73 Dave K4JRB
>
>
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