Re: Help with norton, please?

  • From: Ed Thurston <thurston@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 15:04:22 -0500

Hello Walter,

Let me explain why I even brought up this  subject.  First a bit of back
ground. I try to  up grade nortons  definition files at least twice a week
and  after this then run a full system scan.  Also I have my settings set
to  stop and ask what to do with the  virus both  for  full system scan and
for   email scanning.  

Now here is waht happened.  The other night after the  massive hit on Yahoo
and Debbies list getting swamped   with bunches of bogus yahoo alerts,
actually viruses, I up loaded the definition files and ran a full system
scan, which  told me that it had captured  four  viruses. When I checked in
the  norton  quaranteen list I found four  viruses which  were caught with
the new definition files, but here is my question and concern, there were
seven other viruses and only two do I remember  norton identifying the week
before  in incomeing  email.  In other words there were five  unaccounted
for files and  the only thing I can attribute them to is for finding them
in outgoing email.

Is there any other  way they could  have been  captured?

Ed,

At 06:36 PM 3/8/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>I am talking about if one is protected.  If one is protected, you have
auto protect enabled, this will catch any virus
>that you attempt to download.  If you get a floppy from somebody with a
file on it, then you want to scan it before
>running it.  So if you keep your antivirus files up to date, and you are
protected as I said, then there seems no reason
>to scan outgoing e -mail.
>Walter Siren
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ed Thurston" <thurston@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 1:33 PM
>Subject: Re: Help with norton, please?
>
>
>> Hello Walter,
>>
>> Now I could be wrong, but I think that there are other  ways of  getting a
>> virus.
>>
>> Does Norton scan  files, books and music that we  down load from the
>> internet?  For a number of viruses once they are  activated, one of the
>> first places  they go is to ones address book and then  can be attached to
>> outgoing messages.
>>
>> So it just seems like good insurance  and a kindness to those in ones
>> address book to protect outgoing messages also.
>>
>> Ed,
>>
>> At 01:10 PM 3/8/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>> >If you are protected, then why protect your outgoing e -mail?  I never
>> could really understand that one.  Besides it
>> >slows up your outgoing e -mail too.
>> >Walter Siren
>> >
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "Wendy&Pat" <goldador@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 12:01 PM
>> >Subject: Help with norton, please?
>> >
>> >
>> >> Hi.  Can someone on here tell me how I can get my outgoing e-mail
protected
>> >> by Norton?  My incoming mail is protected, but I did not see any
option on
>> >> how to protect my outgoing mail.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Wendy Alling
>> >>
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