> From my personal experience, I have InoculateIT and Norton.  I let both of
> them run when booting up, then turn Norton off.  I keep InoculateIT
active.
> I have received only 2 viruses that I know of.  I received Happy99.exe and
> the Snow White virus.  Both times, when I clicked to open them,
InoculateIT
> wouldn't let me, displaying the message that it was a virus.  I then, in
> turn, deleted both of them.  So I know that InoculateIT will display a
> message and will not allow you to open the attachment.  Don't know about
> Norton since I disable it after booting up.  I update my dat files at
least
> twice a week, sometimes more.  I used to have McAfee but it got to be so
> difficult to download the current dat files that I just got rid of it
> altogether.  Sometimes McAfee would let me and sometimes not.  Got tired
of
> fooling with it.

Norton AV 2001 also detects these viruses, as a matter of fact it just
caught the joke.exe email attachment that had a virus and I got an alert,
quarantined it and then deleted it. People who complain that Norton doesn't
make a peep probably are not up to date with the definitions or don't have
the email scan enabled.

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