Have you ever been hacked?
Sunday, May 18, 2003 by robsvoyage | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
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Reply #22 Wednesday, May 21, 2003 6:04 AM
| 20 by Mr ChasUGC - 5/20/2003 8:32:52 PM Kona, a all clean doesn't mean much if your virus signatures aren't up to date. Once, I had a virus on my system and the virus scanner didn't detect it until I updated the signatures |
There are worms out there (like one that I had) that are not detected by Norton and will actually infect Norton (they take over the auto-update function.) Here is an example of the type of worm I am referring to: http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=100143
No email or warez sites needed to get infected with that puppy.
Reply #23 Wednesday, May 21, 2003 6:16 AM
Hum. I have never been infected by any virus nor worm. I've always caught them.
On the other hand, I'm constantly fixing other people's computer frpom virii at work because they don't update their virus signatures.
I'm not saying it can't happen, obviously it did to you, Angie. But generally speaking, if you keep your antivirus up to date at all times, you should be safe. While if you don't, you have almost 100% chances of getting infected. 
Reply #24 Wednesday, May 21, 2003 6:23 AM
I had Norton up to date and still got it. Mcafee picked it up right away and got rid of it. No virus protection is 100% reliable.
However, worms are not that destructive, typically. They just spread like crazy and will bring your system to a crawl. A lot will install a backdoor, however, which will create a security breach. They also spread through shared drives, so they are a bit trickier to detect. Once the worm was found and extracted, everything was fine and dandy on my machine. Just took a couple hours of cursing before it was all happy again.
It never hurts to scan with a different virus scanner if there is a question of infection.
Reply #25 Wednesday, May 21, 2003 9:23 AM
also free is Kerio Personal Firewall, written by a group of guys who used to work on Zone Alarm. Kerio is smaller and more secure than ZA.
wickid cool.
Reply #26 Wednesday, May 21, 2003 9:57 AM
(Also, the Kerio people used to be associated with the old Tiny Personal Firewall. Not associated with ZA as far as I know. I recall when the split happened with Tiny and some of the Tiny developers released Kerio.)
Reply #27 Wednesday, May 21, 2003 4:07 PM
was it tiny the people at keiro defected from... probably. my brain is hazzy
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Reply #21 Tuesday, May 20, 2003 9:06 PM