Question: It is time for me to either update or renew my virus definitions. My Nortons is a 2001. I can either buy a year's subscription for $19.98 or update the product. What is the best thing to do? I think this would be the last time I could just subscribe to the anti-virus definitions since I've already done it once. Sharon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy S." <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 1:11 PM Subject: Re: [ILPOPE-L] Attn: Jan Patton > > Jan, > You are right. Most of the new worm-viruses invade the user's address book. Then email is sent out in the name of a person in that address book. The "From" line is relatively meaningless in determining where the virus-infected email came from. > Everybody should not only have a anti-virus program running on their computer, but they need to update the virus definitions often, at least weekly, so that your a-v program can catch the new viruses as them come out. And, of course, never open an attachment unless the sender advises there is one. > The a-v makers can only do so much ... it's up to us to keep the viruses from spreading. > Judy > Jan Patton wrote:Thank you. I just ran McAffee Virus Scan and it tells me that I have no > virus. Maybe the message you received was from someone who has my name on > their mailing list. I send no attachments unless I tell someone I'm doing > so, nor do I open any unless I write them to ask if they have sent one. > > Thanks again, Jan > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 10:55 AM > Subject: [ILPOPE-L] Attn: Jan Patton > > > > Jan, > > Please run a virus scan. I suspect that you might have picked up > > something. I received a strange email from what looks like the Roark line > > pertaining to you with an attachment called 100%doc.scr. No offense > intended > > by my posting this here, but it is the safest way for me to let someone > know > > that they might have a problem. > > > > Thanks, > > Susan > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos, & more > faith.yahoo.com > >

Sharon - I don't know anything about Norton 2001 - but I have Norton 2002. I was using McAffee - simply because it came with my computer and I had paid to keep it updated - but seemed like it took forever to download updates and never felt like it was working right. Last fall when I got a note reminding me to update - I went to Wal-Mart and bought Norton 2002 - I paid $29.95 for it. I have a years service with it and then have to pay again. I really like this software - between my ISP which also has a virus "catcher" and removes a lot of them before they get to my mailbox - and Norton - it catches them all. "knock on wood". I have my Norton program set to scan all incoming and outgoing e-mails. It also automatically updates everytime it needs to - which kind of ticks me off sometimes, as I often just go on for a minute to send to receive notes and then this little "space ship thingy" comes on the bottom of my desktop which tells me Norton is updating files - so I always stay on until it's done. As for the Klez - I don't know how the darn thing works - I don't believe I've ever had it, but it has stolen my address and sent this virus to people. I find this by receiving "bounced mail" messages. The new BugBear is scary - the notes seem to be genealogy notes which have been "stolen" somehow. It seems these "sicko's" are really targeting genealogy folks. Joan Jaco