Good morning all,
This is a miserable story with - I hope - a happy ending.
Last week I spent $A120 to have a version of 'kak worm' removed from my computer system, after it did some unspeakable things and caused me much grief. I had been relying on Nortons for protection which proved futile: it did not pick the contamination.
With the help and advice of friends I have taken some actions that I believe will make my system safer, and I offer them here for your consideration:
The conventional wisdom is that viruses travel with attachments. To make the system more secure against that I installed Inocculate and set up some routines to make it easy to check attachments for viruses.
It then came as a shock to me to find that worms attach themselves to email addresses, and propagate that way. There is a weakness in Internet Explorer - a wormhole? - that allows this to happen. Fortunately MS have developed a 'patch' which can be downloaded (for free) which when installed, will close this loophole.
It can be found at the following address: http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/iebuild/scriptlet/en/scriptlet.htm
Just follow the prompts.
Install InocculateIT
1.. Un-install your present antivirus programme: my computer > controlboard > install/un-install software.
2.. Create a new directory: C:\ download
3.. Download from: http://antivirus.ca.com - file: IPESetup.exe to download directory.
4.. Access IPESetup.exe in the download directory, and double click. Then just follow the prompts
5.. Write down your Customer number
Viruses & attachments
Do not open attachments:
1.. Create new directory: C:\ program files\ internet explorer\ dirty linen
2.. Create shortcut for dirty linen on desktop
3.. Open email > right click on attachment > save as > dirty linen > save
4.. Access dirty linen > higlight attachment (if more than one: > edit > select all) > right click > InoculateIT PE > clean/dirty verdict
5.. Access viruslog.txt - C:\ program files\ InocculateIT PE\ viruslog.txt
6.. Create shortcut for viruslog.txt on desktop.
Good luck, rgds John
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