My inbox is absolutely FULL of emails with a Zip File attached containing a Virus.
I guess yours is too - there are millions doing the rounds.
The latest is from efax but there are many others.
I have been using Microsoft Security Essentials for many months, but it was not warning me that I had received "infected" attachments (though I am sure it would have stopped me if I was daft enough to try and open one)
Also, my wife's PC has been running progressively more slowly. Investigation indicated hard disk and network activity that was higher than expected.
I thought it was Microsoft Security Essentials, so just to check I changed back to Avast and removed MSE.
During the new installation it likes to do a scan - this found two or three virus indications - one of which made her PC a repository for BitTorrent access - so other people were potentially sharing her music etc. It seems they came from an old on-line game called MasterMind. MSE had not detected or prevented these threats.
So I have changed all our PCs to Avast - free and apparently more reliable than MSE. I am sure the other free "defences" such as AVG might be just as effective and of course there are "bought" anti-virus programmes that may be as good or better. But I am worried about MSE.
If you are going to use Avast or AVG make sure you get them from the Manufacturer or from sources on their own web sites - www.avast.com or www.avg.com
Anyway, hope it helps - the next job is to change the 14 laptops at the Broadplace back! - should only take a month.
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Colin Case
www.ruytonxitowns.org.uk
Tel: +44 1939 260628
Mobile: +44 7860 904006
Fax: +44 872 115 8730
Colin Case
www.ruytonxitowns.org.uk
Tel: +44 1939 260628
Mobile: +44 7860 904006
Fax: +44 872 115 8730
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