Re: Virus being spread via email

From: Mark Strelecki, ACP (be6-507@nospam.strelecki.com)
Date: 09/30/02 

From: " Mark Strelecki, ACP" <be6-507@nospam.strelecki.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:35:46 -0400

Hi, Jupiter Jones -

I've seen you giving advice to folks to update their antivirus defs every **
two weeks **, and I wanted to run something by you to see if you agree.

Two weeks is a VERY LONG TIME these days, with new baddies (viruses, worms
and Trojans) appearing almost daily.

Modern AV software can be easily configured to update itself AUTOMATICALLY,
and so we should be suggesting that course of action, along with a scheduled
DAILY update.

Even ONCE a week is too long to go, if you are online every day.

Maybe that's a better recommendation: if you only go online once per week,
then update AV once a week, but if on more frequently, update each day you
go online.

Howzat? <grin>

Best wishes from cloudy Atlanta, GA. 

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Mark Strelecki,  ACP          BE6.XP1097.020817
Atlanta, GA. - Computing and Programming Since 1975
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"Jupiter Jones" <jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com> wrote in message
news:uPoxHOKaCHA.2080@tkmsftngp09...
> It is a Hoax.
> See this link whenever you get an E-Mail that seems suspicious:
> http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/
> At the bottom in Reference Area, click on Hoaxes
> Run an Updated Virus scan at least every 2 weeks, then your chances of
> acquiring a virus are very low.
> If any of your friends deleted that file, refer them to the link for
> repair instructions.
>
> --
> Jupiter Jones
> Please respond to newsgroup only.
> Everyone can benefit from the message.