I have the McAfee virus program on my rig. I do not have the firewall+ protection.
When I booted up and checked my Email a box came up from McAfee saying I had a Trojan horse and it was deleted. Now that's my kind of protection.
One for McAfee
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Wiz Feinberg
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Ken;
Norton, AVG, Norman, Kaspersky, eTrust and Panda all do the same thing. Any virus scanner worth it's weight in air molecules will scan email attachments and intercept known viruses. Even Mailwasher Pro and it's companion Benign will intercept viruses for you.
The important thing to remember is to turn ON automatic updates, for anti-virus definitions, and to manually check for sudden updates that can be downloaded and installed, on the fly. This is because many AV companies supply automatic updates on a weekly schedule, whereas new threats appear all the time. Most AV companies make updates that fix emerging threats available for manual downloading, to fill the gap until the next "pushed update" is released.
BTW: Why are you not using a firewall? Most reputable software firewalls will protect you from not only outside threats trying to break in (via filesharing ports), but also block malware that tries to phone home from your computer, after sneaking onto your computer. This include backdoors and trojans that come in via infected files on filesharing networks such as Kaaza, Bearshare, WinMx, etc.
Wiz<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Wiz Feinberg on 02 December 2004 at 08:07 AM.]</p></FONT>
Norton, AVG, Norman, Kaspersky, eTrust and Panda all do the same thing. Any virus scanner worth it's weight in air molecules will scan email attachments and intercept known viruses. Even Mailwasher Pro and it's companion Benign will intercept viruses for you.
The important thing to remember is to turn ON automatic updates, for anti-virus definitions, and to manually check for sudden updates that can be downloaded and installed, on the fly. This is because many AV companies supply automatic updates on a weekly schedule, whereas new threats appear all the time. Most AV companies make updates that fix emerging threats available for manual downloading, to fill the gap until the next "pushed update" is released.
BTW: Why are you not using a firewall? Most reputable software firewalls will protect you from not only outside threats trying to break in (via filesharing ports), but also block malware that tries to phone home from your computer, after sneaking onto your computer. This include backdoors and trojans that come in via infected files on filesharing networks such as Kaaza, Bearshare, WinMx, etc.
Wiz<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Wiz Feinberg on 02 December 2004 at 08:07 AM.]</p></FONT>
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