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E emspace Member Vancouver Joined: Jan 05, 2003 Posts: 879	E emspace Posted posted on Tue, Jan 27, 2004 11:21 AM Swanky is so right - once you have the infection, it is an enormous pain to remove. You may have lost and/or corrupted many key files, you may have to (argh!) reformat and reinstall everything. Here's a damn good free antivirus prog: http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php . A firewall is also a very good idea esp. for those of us on cable or DSL: http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp . And yes, ignore all attachments unless the sender is someone you know AND mentions it in the body of the email in langugage you know they would use. People shouldn't be sending each other executables anyway. aloha, em.

Swanky is so right - once you have the infection, it is an enormous pain to remove. You may have lost and/or corrupted many key files, you may have to (argh!) reformat and reinstall everything. Here's a damn good free antivirus prog: http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php . A firewall is also a very good idea esp. for those of us on cable or DSL: http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp .

And yes, ignore all attachments unless the sender is someone you know AND mentions it in the body of the email in langugage you know they would use. People shouldn't be sending each other executables anyway.

aloha,
em.

Post #72851 by emspace on Tue, Jan 27, 2004 11:21 AM