[Sca-cooks] OT mail question

[Chris Stanifer]

> I admit to being incredibly stupid and reckless about this stuff 
> myself, because, as per the February issue of Consumer Reports, there 
> were 69 known viruses, Trojan Horses, etc., that _would_ affect my OS 
> -- had they not already been identified and and weeded out in the 
> latest security update, versus some 69,000 out there for Windows. 
> Sometimes I try to open them for fun...


I think I have gotten all 69,000....

Seriously, I have AVG Free Edition, which does a decent job of at least notifying me that I have
recieved a  virus, even if it can't nab the little bastard before it infects my computer.  I have
never had a major virus, which caused anything more than a self-perpetuating mailer, so I consider
myself lucky.

One of the tactics I use to spot this problem, in case my virus scanner does not, is to keep about
10 or 12 'dead' e-mail addresses in my address book.  Meaning, addresses which I know are no
longer valid.  When I get a notice from my mail provider of a returned mail to any of these
addresses, I know something is up, and can run a deep clean on my system.

It works about 90+ % of the time.

Chris






> 
> Adamantius (whose machine last got a virus in 1986, via floppy disk)
> -- 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la 
> brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them 
> eat cake!"
> 	-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques 
> Rousseau, "Confessions", 1782
> 
> "Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
> 	-- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry 
> Holt, 07/29/04
> 
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