[plug] URGENT: DON'T READ THE `HELLO HONEY' MESSAGE if you're on OutLook

David White tadewhite at optusnet.com.au
Fri May 10 22:19:34 WST 2002


At 18:34 08/05/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>>Norton on this W2k box didn't pick it up and they had been updated 3 days 
>>prior
>
>3 days?!?
>I've been advising people lately (whenever I do another virus cleanup, 
>usually) to update virus defs _daily_ when they log on to the 'net and 
>before they check their email. If its done daily it doesn't take too long 
>with any decent virus scanner, and even non outlook users can be fooled / 
>mis-click.

Virus definition that are download with out LiveUpdate support are aprox 
3Mb. Bit hard on a dial up. Also any exectables are held and when trying to 
open a attachment, even from a file manager, a message box is displayed 
that says that they file could contain a cirus and do you want to open it

>--
>Craig Ringer                                IT Manager, POST Newspapers
>http://www.postnewspapers.com.au/
>GPG Key Fingerprint: AF1C ABFE 7E64 E9C8 FC27  C16E D3CE CDC0 0E93 380D
>



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