Virus alert

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:07 pm

pretty much all of the emails that warn of virus' are hoaxes ... a few aren't but most are hoaxes ... before you just believe an email like that and forward it look it up on Mcaffe or Symantec or one the the web sites dealing with internet hoaxes ...

the one that gets me is the online petitions ... a real petition has a name and a signature and an address ... but an online petition can be totally faked so they are worthless ...

kcole4001 · Post by **kcole4001** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:08 pm

The reason I believed it was that it came from our head computer guy in our head office. I figured he had checked it out first rather than just forwarding it to all the stores.
Sorry for any undue alarm, but still better safe than sorry.

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:34 am

One other recommendation, based on experience: do not rely solely on auto-update to keep all the safeguarding software up to date, because some trojans/worms/viruses deactivate the update function. I found this out on a friend's computer; I wondered why he hadn't installed the last two WinXP updates (I knew he had auto-update active), and when I tried to do the update, had problems which were later traced to the presence of a worm infection.