But we still have to download everyone and his dogs story on how he
protects his computer..
As someone said, an eye opener will be ok but not this endless blah blah
about AV products and 'smart' setups.
Towers and antennas pse..
73/Peter SM2CEW
www.qsl.net/sm2cew
At 15:21 2002-05-08 , Guy wrote:
>
>To all the subject police out there, the subject is plain and
>accurate, and it's called a delete key. Avail yourselves. No one is
>making you read it.
>
>73, y'all
>Guy
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "WA9ALS - John" <wa9als@starband.net>
>To: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av@contesting.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 7:00 AM
>Subject: Re: [Towertalk] Klez
>
>
>> > Having in the past had to clean up the mess a virus made, I would
>> > estimate the anger, upset, loss of time and data well into the
>$1000
>> > range, with some loss non-estimable.
>>
>> You mean you can't estimate the cost of pulling out my hair?! HIHI
>> Fortunately, most of my hair is already out!
>>
>> > WinProxy and NAV pay for themselves every day.
>>
>> Exactly! Are other machines on your network being protected by the
>Norton
>> on your "gateway" PC? I was very surprised to learn that my whole
>network
>> was being protected by the single copy of NAV! Almost too good to
>be true,
>> but there's no doubt it's working that way. I see an envelope icon
>in the
>> systray when another PC on the network sends or receives email,
>saying
>> something about NAV protecting the email, and it has already
>stripped
>> several KLEZ viruses from email bound for other PCs on the network.
>>
>> I am using StarBand, and it's probably configured differently than
>your
>> DSL-to-network system, so I was just curious if NAV is protecting
>your whole
>> network or just the one PC. With StarBand, due to it's special
>satellite
>> acceleration protocols, the network is a little different. The
>modem is
>> connected to my main PC via NIC, then there's another NIC in the
>same
>> machine that connects to the LAN. Thus everything passes through
>the
>> "gateway" PC, and I think this is why I get the whole network
>protected by
>> the one NAV program. Even with this configuration, the gateway PC
>doesn't
>> slow down or have problems though - Family can surf during RTTY
>contests etc
>> without bothering me! hihi 73
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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