You raised an important issue. My parents had their
computer infected recently by a worm called w32 (probably
Windows 32 bit) something. I had to spend a few hours
removing it and prevention is always better than the cure.
Nevertheless, if you are not silly enough to open
suspicious E-mails or execute prompts, then you can save
the time as I do. I have no anti-virus running on my
computer because it slows down its operation.
Speaking of viruses (and spam even), my clean E-mail
account at danielsorogon.com has recently been bombed by
many suspicious E-mails with pif files. That is almost
surely a virus. From about 5 such messages a day it has now
come down to about 1 so spam-free life is sure to return
soon.
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----- Original Message -----
>From: "Harvey Tobkes" <harveyT@prodigy.net>
To: <harveyT@prodigy.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 4:12 AM
Subject: Dumaru
>
> Norton Anti-Virus has Quarantined the same virus 3 times
today. It is
> called... W32.Dumaru@mm <mailto:W32.Dumaru@mm> (rated
low).
>
> It did not, of course, infect my computer. Is it
worthwhile to Download a
> Patch from Microsoft to eliminate the Dumaru or just
ignore it and leave it
> as is in Quarantine?
>
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