Just a warning it might be a good time to update ur anti virus!

[Olger901]

Read these articles

It might be wise to install a anti virus program
Read this virus. It's curently in the top 20 of viruses on 13!
This virus can even format your CMOS

http://www.viruslist.com/eng/viruslist.html?id=3178

Doesnt this give you the creeps ???

[AlphaWolf]

Bah, no virus has ever been reason enough to cause me to need a bloatware scanner.

Just don't use outlook express, and don't download everything you see. Hasn't failed me in years.

[Stezo2k]

yea your right but sometimes u might have a virus/trojan/some spyware that u dont know about, its always best to be safe. Cant have ppl spyin on ya tho use adawre that prog kix as

Stez

[Olger901]

AlphaWolf: I don't evem ever open E-Mail unless I expect E-Mail and if the expected E-Mail has an attachment I NEVER open it!
and everything I download I give a virusscan first. But then still I get viruses. I once even got a LoveLetter Virus from a LEGAL CD I bought at the store so don't say you don't get any viruses because you never know

Stezo2k:I also use ad aware. BTW, what is wrong with people spying on you? I know that they can see what you have then but what is the problem with that they are allowed to see my pc nothing special expect for a few FBI and CIA documents
:innocent:

[mesman00]

no virus scanner here, if i get a virus, or anything seems wrong, i format

/me is format happy

[AlphaWolf]

Originally posted by Olger901
AlphaWolf: I don't evem ever open E-Mail unless I expect E-Mail and if the expected E-Mail has an attachment I NEVER open it!
and everything I download I give a virusscan first. But then still I get viruses. I once even got a LoveLetter Virus from a LEGAL CD I bought at the store so don't say you don't get any viruses because you never know

Stezo2k:I also use ad aware. BTW, what is wrong with people spying on you? I know that they can see what you have then but what is the problem with that they are allowed to see my pc nothing special expect for a few FBI and CIA documents
:innocent:

In the past 7 years I have only had 2 virii, both were back in the day that I used scanners and kept them up to date regularly....guess what? the scanners found neither of them, and my hard disk got trashed. And in the past, outlook express has been vulnerable to virii by you just selecting the email, you didn't even have to read it.

Honestly, I don't see any point

[yogaman]

well .... NAV didn't let me down so far

[Snake785]

I've never used a Virus Scan before, and I never had a virus

[CRi{]v[}iNaL]

man before i got systemworks I formated my HD every two month and i'm not "formatting happy" cuz i had 20GB of songs and videos which take months to download. Got nortan's and i havent formated since. oh ya did i mention that i downloaded my shit off kazaa/morpheus?

[AlphaWolf]

Heres one of many bits of advice I can give you to protect yourself: If you are going to download any questionable executable software, do so off of a p2p network, and make sure at least 5 or so people have the same file if its rare (or a reasonable number ratio'ed based on the size of the network), more if its not rare. If it contains virii, odds are only 1 or so people have it.

Also guess what? If you buy software that contains virii, or anything destructive, you may sue whoever either produced or sold you that software for the cost of restoring your data, or if its unrecoverable, the "project" that you were working on which you have already invested thousands of dollars worth of time developing (hint hint).

Play it smart, only the naive need to pay companies for bloatware to protect their precious data.