[PSUBS-MAILIST] Virus problems...possible fixes

["Greg Cotton" <gregc02@attglobal.net>]

This is yet another reason that I don't use the Windows mail program; most of the Virus' out there are set 
up to use holes in the Microsoft system. I use Pegasus Mail, which is not only nice to use and free but 
doesn't respond to most of the Virus' that spread by email. I'm also using AVG's free version of anti-virus 
software which seems to do a real good job and keeps me updated automaticly.

Here's the links for AVG Antivirus, with the info on this virus:

http://www.grisoft.com/html/news/klezh.htm

and the Pegasus Mail website, Pegasus is free but David Harris would like it if you paid the shareware fee 
and got the manual:

http://www.pmail.com/

Hope this helps,

Greg



Date sent:      	Wed, 01 May 2002 12:44:08 -0500
To:             	personal_submersibles@psubs.org
From:           	William Alford <walford@dbtech.net>
Subject:        	[PSUBS-MAILIST] Online Sub Photos
Send reply to:  	personal_submersibles@psubs.org

> Wow!  I just experimented with the "Google" Images tab. Go to
> www.google.com, which is in my experience the best search engine on the
> net. Look above the subject line and click on "images" instead of "web",
> then type in "submarine" in the subject line and you'll get 16,000 (!)
> photos with a "thumbnail" image for each. Try again with plural
> "submarines" and get another 7,000 hits. On some you can "backtrack" the
> source address by copying the address, pasting into the browser address
> line and deleting the end of the address to get to the original website.
> Talk about wired! 
> 
> BTW, my antivirus sw has stopped a *really* nasty virus from lists several
> times that's circulating on the net right now called the W32/Klez.h@MM. I
> got it from the rebreather list yesterday. this one doesn't require an
> attachment, comes in body of email and mutates continually once in your PC,
> hiding from the antivirus sw. Some have had to wipe windows and upgrade to
> Windows xp to get rid of it. Practice safe net, get good antivirus SW!
> 
> >Klez got into my computer and buried itself and mutated.  If it gets in, the
> >longer it stays, the more havoc it reaks.  I stayed up all night running 
> >Norton's latest, and it kept doing a quarrantine of different versions of
> an Eckern 
> >virus, meaning it kept finding new manifestations.
> 
> >After 40 runs, it finally didn't find any.  However, a day later, it started
> >all over.  Finally, I erased a few directories and upgraded to Windows XP,
> >and I think I have resolved the problem.
> 
> William Alford
> walford@dbtech.net
> 
> Tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner