[V8] ADMIN: hiiiiikk!

[dsaad at icehouse.net]

.... Or you could just get a Mac. I have not had a virus problem in nearly 15
years of Mac'in. Not to say one doesn't exist. Rumor has it that there is a Mac
virus out there somewhere - it just has not found me yet.
Here at work we seem to always be having some sort of windows crises while the
Unix users just keep on working.

Dave


Quoting Brett Dikeman <brett at cloud9.net>:

> Yup, we just had a hiccup with the server.  The antivirus bit went
> postal and filled 20GB of disk space with little bitty files, which
> makes getting rid of them a royal PITA(slow).  Then we had to sort
> out some side problems caused -by- the lack of disk space, but
> everything seems to be yippy-skippy now.  I think we lost a little
> email, not sure how much.
>
> Incidentally, we get around a couple HUNDRED (sometimes more) copies
> of various viruses a day.  The viruses are a collossal waste of CPU
> time for the server, not to mention the bandwidth wasted- the buggers
> are 40-50kb EACH.  That's larger than the digest for quattro.
>
> Obviously, consult with your IT department if the system in question
> is at work, or just leave it alone.  Assuming it's your system:
>
> There's a free web-based scanner here: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
> (there are others, but that's one I've used with success before.)
>
> While you're at it, run Spybot
> (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html) and Adaware
> (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/).  Between those two,
> you'll most likely uninstall all the spyware and ad programs(the
> average home windows box has over 20 such programs, btw).  Spybot
> also can make some little tweaks to IE to make it less like the
> internet equivalent of a whore-house; look under "immunize".
>
> Then, trundle over to Windows
> Update(http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com) and install whatever
> critical updates it finds.  Service Packs are most important, but XP
> users be slightly wary of SP2, MS is apparently still working out the
> kinks on that one.  Also, you don't need the latest Windows Media
> Player or anything having to do with DRM(Digital Rights Management).
>
> If you have MS Office, there's a seperate web updater for
> that(http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/).  You will need the
> original Office disks.
>
> Reboot, do it all again until everything comes back with a clean bill
> of health(Windows Update and office update included- they often need
> multiple reboots/runs as some patches require other patches!)
>
> If you have a full-time connection, it's best you drop the $40-ish on
> a router (dime a dozen at most electronics stores and whatnot-
> Linksys and Netgear are the bigest names) to protect your system.
> Some versions of windows, even if system-level firewalling is
> configured, are vulnerable while booting- to the extent that people I
> know have had trouble cleaning a system because they get reinfected
> so fast.
>
> Try out Mozilla, or its lightweight counterpart Thunderbird- or
> Opera.  All three have none of the security problems IE and Outlook
> do, and some pretty nifty features- popup blocking and spam filtering
> builtin, for example.  Make backups first in case the importing stuff
> goes wrong- but I've turned several people to Mozilla and haven't had
> a single person complain yet.  Huw switched a long time ago on his
> own to Mozilla- and is one very happy camper, I believe.
>
> I don't usually mention platform specific stuff like this on the
> lists, because this isn't a computer support list. However, infected
> windows systems have become such a nuisance to the list server that
> it bears mention.  Please feel free to pass along to friends/family
> the above set of programs to clean their systems as well.
>
> Cheers,
> Brett
> --
> "They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin
> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~brett/
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