Judging from the number of times I've been sent this latest worm (now over 200, and getting one about every 6 minutes this morning) many are obviously not protected by anti-virus softwear. Here is a link to a very good free program:

http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php

NOTE: DO NOT download this if you have any other anti-virus softwear on your computer.

Zone Alarm is the best free software (see, I can spell that word) firewall available...in fact I think it's better than many of the "pay" ones.

And BTW Jojo and Speed...someone we know has the worm because I've gotten it with both your e-mails as the sender, as have a couple posters on BNF (and Speed doesn't even post there).

Yeah, I got one or two from your email address too, I think what it did was attack the senders list from whoevers email and sent from there.  I went through some of my old sent mail and noticed a lot of the addresses in there were on these virus emails.  I had sent you something a while back, I noticed on the BNF post about this it had the booster club's president's email, as well as my hotmail email.  Seems to have eased up today, hopefully that's that!  In the past with other viruses I have had sent to me that they seem to stem from the boards, sometimes I'll get something supposely from Springfield's booster club, usually it's labeled as a Falcon pic, other times I get them with something associated with hockey, ahl, the Cats, or the Blues.  I've never (knock on wood) had anything get into my system at home, you can usually tell by misspelled words in the subject line, and the size of the email.  AVG has caught everything there, work on the other hand...I had to use the removal tool yesterday afternoon for SoBig, they use Norton, it got in.  You still getting the bad emails?

Yeah, I got one or two from your email address too, I think what it did was attack the senders list from whoevers email and sent from there.  I went through some of my old sent mail and noticed a lot of the addresses in there were on these virus emails.  I had sent you something a while back, I noticed on the BNF post about this it had the booster club's president's email, as well as my hotmail email.  Seems to have eased up today, hopefully that's that!  In the past with other viruses I have had sent to me that they seem to stem from the boards, sometimes I'll get something supposely from Springfield's booster club, usually it's labeled as a Falcon pic, other times I get them with something associated with hockey, ahl, the Cats, or the Blues.  I've never (knock on wood) had anything get into my system at home, you can usually tell by misspelled words in the subject line, and the size of the email.  AVG has caught everything there, work on the other hand...I had to use the removal tool yesterday afternoon for SoBig, they use Norton, it got in.  You still getting the bad emails?

If you have virus scanning software installed properly you wont get any, it will filter it before it hits your in box. When you use that free crap you get what you pay for. Norton is crap also , get the best, get McAfee, I use it on over 200 computers and it has never let me down. As far as firewalls, Zonealarm is definatly the best, the pro version is even better than the free one, very configurable. The computer worm/virus thing is in it infancy, you havent seen anything yet. make sure your virus definitions are updated and your firewall is running and kepp yourself educated to what is going on in the world. Last but not least if you are running anything wireless be sure to secure it, if you bought it, unboxed it and it worked great and you didnt secure it, you might as well put you machine out on the front porch !!!!

Also if you have XP, turn on the Firewall that comes with it! But you can't go wrong with Zonealarm - come on it's free! Check this out - since April it has blocked 39,000 intrusions from my PC - 31,000 of them high-rated!  And spend the money on anitvirus software - think of it as an ongoing tune-up for your PC.

People that use Norton often dislike McAfee, and vice versa. Both are good and each has it's own particular "issues". Grisoft's free program is only a small step behind these 2.

I didn't have very good luck with Mcafee.  I did get a couple of viruses when I had it.  Norton just seemed to make a mess of my computer.  There is also a pay version of AVG, not sure how much more that version offers.  Another program I run is Ad-Aware (also free) http://www.webattack.com/get/adaware.shtml.  Keeps advertisers, trackers and spyware out of your system programs and your cookies.

Thanks for all the info, peoples.

I was one of the peeps hit with one of the latest viruses, and I have McAfee Professional and the ZoneAlarm firewall.  The virus still managed to get through the protections as an attachment to a .jpg file on an advertising (SPAM!) email.

The only thing I hated about McAfee is that I had to delete and re-install it to get it tow work, 'cause the virus attacked it as well.  It also managed to infect my boss's system, and he uses Norton.  So, unless you Live Update, as often as possible, these things get through.

Live and learn!

Judi

If you are using either Charter or Comcast as your ISP and have my e-mail  (mamane_21@hotmail.com), Jojo's, and Speed's address in your address book please check to see if you are infected with the solbig worm.

Thanks.

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I love it when we get bumped by Judi.

;^)

i love the softwear because it is very good and i use the softwear verywell.

                                 thanks.

Anytime, 210.  ;-)

At least I'm only bumping - most people I kick! 

Actually, I bumped this thread because I've recently had to wipe my PC clean due to spyware, and I got a number of recommendations for Ad-Aware as a great free program to use.

Judi

new round of viurses and spyware out there.

The new virus attaches a pic and the message is one like a lonely singles ad.  It even attaches a picture to the email.

Judi

I use both Ad-Aware and SpyBot...both catch things the other doesn't.

Best thing is both are free and simply to use--can't ask for more than that.