Re: IMPORTANT: Email warning!
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 05:07:52 -0700, Al Getz <guest at RapidEuphoria.com>
wrote:
>This makes me think about a program...that brings up a dialog box
>whenever *ANY* exe is run on a machine.
I use Kerio, which monitors all executables for network traffic. It
also performs an md5 checksum on any exe you have previously given
permission to perform network traffic before it is run. This may not
help with many viruses, (unless they infect your browser etc), but it
should catch any spyware/trojan type programs. Other firewalls
probably perform in a similar fashion. I am not a security expert.
Regards,
Pete
PS I replied before but I think it got lost. You wrote:
>a dialog box saying something like i had the 'sassor worm' and
>i had to run this virus program to get rid of it, with an "ok" button to
>run the program (which actually did nothing when clicked).
As you are probably aware, that was a bit of relatively harmless html
showing, but clicking the button installed the virus. If you'd just
closed the window, it would probably not have managed to cause harm.
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