Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] mcafee self destructed

Jon:

No virus can really wipe out a harddrive. (thats urban myth), so you should
be able to fix the drive. Of, course , with how cheap drives are now, its
better to buy a new Bigger one anyway.
As to realtime protection, I just delete any email with attachments unless
I expect them. Or run them through a hex-dump first to see if it's a virus.
If you see any reference to MAPI, get rid of the file immediately. It keeps
me fairly safe. If I screw up, I run housecall right away, it hasn't failed
me yet. (fingers crossed).

Art

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Anderson" <janders@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] mcafee self destructed


> Smoke,
>
> Check out http://www.grc.com and do some browsing. Don't know if Norton
> fixed it's firewall software, but it was rated as very poor by Gibson.
> Norton and some other firewalls install with a database of programs that
> are to be granted automatic and unquestioned access to the net. Any
> trojan program simply has to install itself using any of the
> preauthorized filenames and it's in business. ZoneAlarm uses some form
> of checksum protocol to verify a program really is what it's name says
> it is.
> GRC has a lot of great info, but the Denial of Service page though
> lengthy, probably covers what nailed her computer.
> FWIW, when I first ran across ZoneAlarm (just before finding out I had
> some sort of virus) and installed it, I was getting a huge amount of
> port scans. After doing a full fresh reinstall of NT on a brand new HD,
> and installing ZoneAlarm/Norton right off the bat, I maybe only a couple
> port scans a day. Could be wrong, but I suspect I might have had some
> sort of trojan on my system as well as the virus. Hope you can fix her
> computer without resorting to a new HD like I had to.
>
> Jon
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