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No, I had AVG 8 running on the Windoze machine. However, clever children like to play on MSN messenger and despite the '..for gods sake, scan stuff before you open it.' pleas, I'm just the old dude who knows nothing! The move completely from Linux is down to daughters fixation with Habbo (Shockwave Flash Thingy) and very old habits that are hard to eradicate started at school which are... Windoze is your master... if it ain't Windoze it ain't no good! We will win in the end, and That silly new windoze OS is certainly helping! My Kids hate it! The big problem is I don't use the windows box, but seem to spend half my time fixing the darned thing... when .dll's attack (or get updated by M$ and blow up your OS) Ho, hum! Keep up the great work M$! Adam On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 15:32 +0100, Andrew Pearce wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rob Beard" <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 2:48 PM > Subject: Re: [LUG] LXF Replacement disc > > > > Adam Latham wrote: > > > >> So I did none of the above! I AVG'd it, then Stinger'd it, then > >> F-secured it, then phoned them and told them I didn't use Windoze only > >> Linux. Hey Presto... 10 minutes later broadband restored. > > > > Were you not running Anti-Virus software before on Windows? > > > > Saying that, I've had two machines to fix recently which were both > > infected with Adware and Trojans. BBboth paid for anti-virus apps, one > > PC had F-Secure on a monthly subscription, the other was Norton Internet > > Security on an annual licence didn't pick them up whereas AVG Free 8 did! > > > > I've got a copy of the malware in a backup so I'm going to test Avast > > against them later on a VMWare sandbox (just going to do a scan to see > > if it picks them up). > > > >> > >> I would have appreciated a call to say "Hey... did you know you're > >> infected?" But no! Turn me off, refuse to answer questions, close-up > >> shop at 5pm and then snail-mail me useless instructions. > >> > > > > Yeah that's what you get with these big ISPs. I've occasionally had > > problems with Enta and I can phone them up no matter what time of day or > > night and get through to a tech support rep and they're always really > > friendly and knowledgeable. I'd have though Sky Broadband (which is > > re-badged Easynet) would have 24 hr tech support who could reinstate > > your broadband. > > > >> Sorted now, and the sooner I ditch that Windoze box, the better! > > > > What exactly is holding back the move to completely Linux? > > > > By the way, I have a feeling that IPCop has a plugin to proxy/scan > > traffic with ClamAV. Not sure if that might help pickup things like > > this before they arrive on the Windows box? > > > > Rob > > > > -- > > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > > > > -- > > This message has been scanned for viruses and > > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > > believed to be clean. > > > > At work where I have to used a combination of linux/windows machines, the > machine > we use to do virus removal, have 3 separate installations with AVG Free, > NOD32, > and the Symantec Corporate antivirus clients. With comparing the three you > can almost > guarantee that each one will find something the others has missed. > > Ah least we rarely get email viruses there anymore, got a fedora 9 machine > running with > spamassassin, mailscanner, f-prot and nod32 getting rid of the nasties > before its getting > delivered to exchange. > > Andrew > > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html