Guest guest Posted May 30, 2001 Report Share Posted May 30, 2001 Hi , With my limited experience with viruses (thank goodness) you can get a " Trojan Horse " virus where a virus would be hidden in a file. Dunno, though, I maybe wrong. Mark ----Original Message Follows---- From: cinnyd@... Reply-To: NF2_Crew To: NF2_Crew Subject: Re: virus Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 12:50:20 US/Eastern virus alerts just from browsing sites?? doesnt seem likely but I'll take your word for it. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: cinnyd@... > > can someone with REAL COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE tell me again that > the only way you can get a virus is if you download and open an infected > file, > is this still true??? > ________________________________________________________ > I love talking viruses,I don't have " real computer " knowledge.I usually be> g for help,So I can't help you .Thought I would add though,I have gott> en virus alerts surfing the net(and not just porn sites:).This is odd,these> virus dudes are sneaky. > Jimmy > > > > Just an alert, I got two messages that Norton said had a virus from the > > NF2Crew; I think it was something like the MagisN32 or something. Be > > careful. > > Marie Drew > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 30, 2001 Report Share Posted May 30, 2001 thanks Marie!! The 'puter here is my life, ill watch out~~Lowi:) virus > Just an alert, I got two messages that Norton said had a virus from the > NF2Crew; I think it was something like the MagisN32 or something. Be > careful. > Marie Drew > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 30, 2001 Report Share Posted May 30, 2001 But you know, my norton gives me these alerts when it is downloading, and I have not " opened " a n attachment; it gives me the message that it is found a virus and what do I want to do, and I say delete the damn thing! (well you know what I mean) Marie Re: virus >Mostly yes... <g> > >HTML Mail can have bad things encoded in it and the Mail readers (notably Microsoft) sometimes have security holes. > > Your safest bet is.. Stay Away from Unknown attachments > Run Windows Update periodically to get the latest Security Updates and upgrades > I personally run with HTML mail turned off, but that's probably a little extreme. My recommendation would be, just becareful of mail from strangers > >Pete > > >On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 10:56:14AM +0000, cinnyd@... wrote: >> I turned my norton offbecuz my systems just crawlssss with it on. need more >> memory. anywho.... can someone with REAL COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE tell me again that >> the only way you can get a virus is if you download and open an infected file, >> is this still true??? >> >> >> >> Just an alert, I got two messages that Norton said had a virus from the >> > NF2Crew; I think it was something like the MagisN32 or something. Be >> > careful. >> > Marie Drew >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 31, 2001 Report Share Posted May 31, 2001 Techies - Pete - How come Marie and some people got the virus warning but I didn't? Charlotte- that was an email sent to all of the crew? And, by the way thanks for being so careful to protect the crew! barbara B. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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