Virus Tips and Tools
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Sharon Hindle offers these virus tips:
- NEVER click on an attached file unless you are sure the sender has checked it for a virus.
- Check it yourself for a virus!
- Never pass along the *warning* alert e-mails unless you have checked at [one or more of] the following sites:
- Symantec's Norton Anti Virus Research Center
- Computer Associate's Virus Encyclopedia
- McAfee Associates Hoax List
- F-Secure Hoax Warnings, the industry standard information source for new virus hoaxes and false alerts.
- The USA Department of Energy Hoax Page
Sophos Ten Most Recent Virus Alerts
We use FRISK Software International's F-PROT for Windows on all our computers. It has all the features you need, including free Internet updates. They are located in Reykjavik, Iceland, so they can freeze those viruses out of your computers! I passed through there with my mom, Corrine, in 1980.
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