[V8] ADMIN: hiiiiikk!

[Ed Kellock]

I've never touched a Mac and I've never had a virus problem.  ;-)   I
have been affected by them because of other users on a corporate
network though, so I guess the point is still valid.

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 08:17:40 -0600, dsaad at icehouse.net
<dsaad at icehouse.net> wrote:
> ..... 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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