virus cleanup

[Lance Van Nostrand]

Outlook is the target of many a hacker.  There have been several important
patches released from microsquish this week that are rollups of previous
patches with some new stuff.  I encourage everyone running Windows to go to
www.microsoft.com and click on the Windows Update link.  Let it scan your
computer and get you updated.  Then go to www.lavasoft.com and download
their free ad-aware software.  I've tried a bunch of them and this one not
only works, but is updated free and doesn't secretly install its own
tracking s/w.
  Finally, go to www.sygate.com and download their free personal firewall.
It installs easily and pops up a message everytime your computer connects to
a new location on the internet.  You get a chance to allow it or deny it,
and you can also select to allow it / deny it every time or just this time.
After a few days of giving answers you'll realize just how many malicious
programs are trying to get in or out of your machine and you can catch them.

--Lance
PS. Just ask Gray how well this worked when I fixed his computer.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Cronkhite" <seefo at san.rr.com>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 8:57 AM
Subject: RE: Re: Re: Re:


> Guys..
>
> Tony more than likely doesn't have a virus. These is an address spoofing
> virus that uses Microsoft Outlook's (or Outlook Express) address book and
> replicates itself as coming from someone in your address book. Whoever was
> infected had all these email addresses in their address book and this is
the
> result. I would still suggest a complete virus scan, but it is not Tony
> who's infected.
>
> -Doug
>
>
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