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Guy

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Got a virus on my desktop late Monday, it came from an apparently trusted source, and I opened the attachment - its a clever bastard that closed my virus protection software.
It presents as a pif file.
I shut the desktop down Monday and am using an unifected laptop while the other is cleaned up.
I 'm sorry but its gone out to everyone in my address book, but 35 have been rejected and returned, so its plainly being recognised.

IMPORTANT THING IS DO NOT OPEN ANY E-MAIL FROM
[email protected] UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.


SORRY, MAYBE SOMEONE CAN ADVISE ON BEST ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE? WAS USING pcCILLIN OR SOME SUCH DAFT NAME.
GETTING NORTON PUT ON AT THE MOMENT - ANY ADVICE WELCOME
 
If money is no object , use Sophos anto virus ... but , in the real world , Notron anti virus is the best solution.


Hope you can uninfect it.

Here is a help page with some instructions on how to clean viruses and how they spread.

Http://vil.nai.com

Good luck dude
 
Ditto fuzzers answer, Sophos first Norton second.

Sophos is our company standard and seems to work very well.

Jonathan
 
If you are using work systems, your IT guys should consider getting the whole domain (the bit after the @ sign) protected by messagelabs (www.messagelabs.com)- works at the internet level and is guaranteed to remove all viruses, and you can have SPAM and porn removal as-well...

90-something-% of viruses come in thru email ..

As for desktop protection at home, I use Norton - it seems to be one of the best - dont forget to enable auto-downloads of virus updates though
 
Having had lots and lots of experence of people in tears and also less than great antivirus programs , i would not trust the program to auto update ....

if you want somthing done properly , do it yourself if you can.
 
Thanks for your help, guys. Now have Norton installed, and have got rid of the virus which was klez-h.

I got 114 rejected e-mails back from various mail servers, which makes me wonder why it got through to me.

Lesson learnt, never open attachments without checking with the sender - in this case it apparently came from a work colleague, but he hadn't sent it - his account with freeserve had been closed for a year, but it was still in someone's address book.

Anyway, thanks to all for advice.
 

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