Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] mcafee self destructed

I'd have to disagree with that one. If someone would write a virus that
would run a DOS program (on boot up) that I have called WDCLEAR (plus alter
the pgm to eliminate the built in safe guards) the virus could write zeros
to the entire hard drive, thius wiping out EVERYTHING!

Smoke

----- Original Message -----
From: "Art Fenerty" <fenerty@...>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 6:31 PM
Subject: 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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