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All,
I like most of Mick's suggestions except that I've never seen it
suggested to use two anti virus programs at once.

I have seen, in installation instructions for McAfee anti virus,
that all other anti virus software must be disabled to install
McAfee.

Personally I'd not try it unless I had a really easy way to get
back to a system with out having both installed.

I agree that the message that started all this which appeared to
be from Mark, and surely was not, didn't appear to be a complete
Klez virus, but there were some .pif files or at least file names
in it, so I wasn't about to mess about to find out if it was
really active.

I use dos at home, where I got that message, and so am as safe as
you can get.  However I have a modern dos anti virus program with
which I scann anything that comes in in which i am interested if
there is any doubt.

My wife uses a windows ME machine with carefully updated McAfee
anti virus and it has caught the Klez virus a couple times and
warned of it before the attachment was opened.

Apparrently if you're using IE5.0 to IE5.5 and outlook without
having MS service pack 2 installed it is actually possible for
Klez to self open with no help from you.

This is, so far as I know, the first virus that can do that
unless you have outlook express setup to auto priview.

Note how many different answers one gets on all this virus stuff.
Just goes to prove that nothing is for sure, ans security is only
relative.

Political implications definitely intended <G>

tom fowle



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