Re: Patch Hoax

From: George Hester (hesterloli@hotmail.com)
Date: 04/10/03 

From: "George Hester" <hesterloli@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 19:22:38 -0400

So far it has but I respect what you say. What's bosh to me may not be bosh to others and I recognize that. Yes I got hit with the Slammer worm. But that was not a virus nor a trojan. Yes I got hit by having my SQL sa pass blank. I fixed that and removed the trojan that resulted from it. But Anti virus was no help in any of this. None at all. It took this group to help me track down the trouble. The only time I have ever "caught" a virus was on a machine that had Norton 2000 installed and updated every Friday evening. This machine which had none of that "bosh" installed has never been infected by anything I was too stupid to stop and not received here the heads up I needed to get a little smarter. And it wasn't you need AV. It was you need as firewall but that served its purpose and now I don't need it. Maybe I will again someday. Who's to say. 

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George Hester
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"x y, mvp" <levinson_k@despammed.com> wrote in message news:u#6ud17#CHA.2396@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Virus scanners are not bosh, and advising other people not to use them is
> IMHO not recommended.
> 
> Besides offering protection against viruses, a virus scanner is the best way
> to identify what a particular file is.  Too often people come in here saying
> "I have a file named such and such, is it a virus?" and that's just not the
> way to reliably identify malware.
> 
> Nowadays there are worms that can spread via NetBIOS and web services and
> other services, so just using common sense such as by not opening up strange
> email attachments is not necessarily enough to keep you virus free.
> 
> 
> "George Hester" <hesterloli@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:O9dBjD6#CHA.2140@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hotmail has a LOT of traffic.  And what happens at hotmail is theat SPAMMER
> have set up a dedicated scanner through every permutation of every known
> email address at Hotmail.  This is how it works.  No other Web Service
> provider has the sheer numbers of valid email addresses that will be found
> this way.  That is why Hotmail.  Its popularity is its doom.
> 
> Now about the virus scanners.  They are bosh just as the clients you
> purchase are bosh.  That's why.  I haven't used virus scanners in years.  I
> do do online ones sometimes but not often.
> 
> 
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