Re: Hello

Do you browse from comp 2 using a limited or an admin account ?
Browsing can be unsafe, and the extent of issues can be different
based on the account being used.

Lately AV products from leading vendors has been protecting against
more than what one might normally think of under the name "virus".
Some protect against webpage based exploits. For example, before
MS issued the metafile patch a number of AV vendors were protecting
against a subset of the exploit versions.

Whether comp 2 once had could imperil comp 1, well, this sort of
depends on the accounts in use, if access from one to the other is
seamless or has prompting for login, etc. and on whether you mean
spread all on its own or spread while you are using one to access
the other. In general, things are often spread by use of such the
network shares so I would guess this means in your case, yes, comp 2
could infect comp 1


"AW" <AW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:54DFC03F-45EC-4652-BF07-F78D45F60281@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have a main computer (1) fully AV'd with Norton 2004 and also firewalled
> with Norton Personal Firewall (Windows Firewall is disabled). This
> computer
> connects to the Internet via a broadband USB Speedtouch external modem. I
> have another computer (2) networked to this computer (with ethernet cards
> in
> each computer and a crossover cable (LAN)) and have configured the network
> so
> that computer (2) runs through the Firewall on computer (1).
> Question 1) If computer (2) is only used for browsing the internet (i.e
> not
> onfigured for mail) do I need any AV software on this machine?
> Question 2) If computer (2) does get a virus is it possible for it to
> travel
> through the LAN cable and infect computer (1)?
> Many thanks for reading this and for your time in answering.
> Andrew Wilson
> --
> AW


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