[X Newbies] Viruses on X

[T. Patrick Henebry]

On 7/31/03 12:27 PM, "Steven Rogers" <srogers1 at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> Yeah - I used to get them all the time from mailing lists, and all the
> PC users would be amazed that I could see the little poo that was
> attached which they couldn't see.

Oh, they can see it *IF* they use their antivirus program properly. The
biggest problem is most users don't a) keep their virus definitions up to
date b) perform regular drive scans.

Call me paranoid if you wish but when I'm working on a PC I check for new
virus definitions *daily* it only takes about a minute and can save you a
lot of grief. 
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T. Patrick Henebry
tphenebry at comcast.net