[access-uk] Re: Norton auto email scanning

Hi Phil,
There are worms and viruses about which spoof mail
addresses.

Basically the problem is that some completely
reckless idiot, who does not have adequate and up
to date virus protection, has your details in his
or her address book.  Those details have been
harvested by one of these worms, and has used
their system to send out messages appearing to
come from you and others in their address book.

I get similar messages too from purporting to come
from people whom I know take great care to ensure
their systems are fully protected.  However, when
you look closely at the Header information, and
track down the owner of the IP address, it just
proves that they didn't send the message.

There is absolutely no excuse these days for not
having virus protection.  There are numerous
totally free anti-virus programs available today,
and by far the majority do an excellent job.
Keeping these definitions up to date is not
usually too difficult either.

Frankly, I am still more than surprised at the
number of highly intelligent people I meet who
claim to have virus protection, yet it has either
expired, or the virus definitions have not been
updated for a very long time.  These days, it pays
to check for new definitions on an almost daily
basis.

Another area, which I know can be troublesome, are
the Critical Updates.  With a minimal amount of
help setting up it initially, these can be applied
automatically, and do without doubt plug many
holes.

I am well aware that some of this software can be
intimidating, but that's one of the areas where
everyone on this list can help each other.  All
anyone has to do is ask.

George.

-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Phil
Stephenson
Sent: 31 July 2004 18:53
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Norton auto email
scanning

Have done this, it too says I'm clean.  Anyone got
any others that they use that are good at spotting
stuff others like Norton perhaps doesn't.

a bit concerned as the friend who says they got an
email from my wife and I's accounts we've not
actually sent an email to for the past few weeks.

Oh well, will keep searching....!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry" <bbinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 12:02 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Norton auto email
scanning


> You could try using an on-line virus scanner
such as:
>
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_co
rp.asp
>
> Barry H
>
> From: Phil Stephenson
>   To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 10:05 PM
>   Subject: [access-uk] Norton auto email
scanning
>
>
>   All,
>
>   Sent a friend a url via email and he said his
system told him I'd got a
>   virus.  Have just run Norton 2003 and it says
I'm clean, is there
anything
>   else I should do or might it be his system?
yes, have updated virus
>   definitions this evening.
>
>   In process of looking at Norton have
discovered a further problem with
the
>   auto protect  feature.  It keeps coming up in
red in the main program
window
>   as needing enabled however it won't let me
click it.  Also, on email
scan
>   feature is coming up with an error message but
no further details.
>
>   Any suggestions?
>
>   By 'clicking' I mean my wife has been looking
at it as I don't find it
easy
>   with Jaws - but that's another issue!
>
>   Thanks in advance,
>
>   Phil


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