Re: COMP: VIRUSES

Cathy, like I said, you always have some points I haven't considered ie:
the other OS and systems. The choices I remember were more like MS DOS,
Apple or MAC and they didn't set on a desk top! Another choice was,  do
you want Beta or VHS? As Debby posted, I too have spent time (years)
trying McAfee, Norton's and have found the Grisoft has done as well as
any for a while. They all get complacent and ride their laurels too long
before they are forced to major overhauls and then the fine tuning. It is
an ongoing process. Sounds like Panda might be one to look at.

Yes I would love to have a few links to check out regarding warnings
and/or announcements. Please feel free to send it to me off list too as
I'm getting too windy here with questions.
Thanks!
Char in Idaho
 
On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 13:15:53 -0400 Catherine Button
<cathy@pav.research.panasonic.com> writes:
> Char,
> 
> You said that so well (and gently) that I hesitate to answer! But in 
> a 
> like vein, this would present problems beyond the primary issue. 
> Specifically, one very difficult issue is presented by the very 
> openess 
> of this list - which I think would be a good thing to preserve. That 
> is, 
> who can post VIR (virus) posts to the list(s)?
> 
> With the exception of the ADMIN heading which is reserved for the 
> list 
> owner, anyone could post (and has done so) virus warnings, when, in 
> 
> fact, they are completely false! And I don't think you can reserve 
> this 
> heading to just a few people. Computer knowledgeable people are 
> everywhere and don't necessarily work in computers. Others may think 
> 
> they know the subject well and do more harm than good by passing 
> along 
> old or incorrect information. And I think our list owner does far 
> too 
> much work as it is to ask him to be the one to post VIR alerts.
> 
> Another problem- one that I am obviously very guilty of - is the 
> exteneded threads that it can generate, like this one. Useful only 
> in 
> that it deals with the content of this very list.
> 
> And more complications - this is hard to believe, but there are a 
> few of 
> us geeks here who use GOOD operating systems and computers - like 
> Linux, 
> MAC, and Unix (as in my case Sun Solaris). While no operating system 
> is 
> free from threat, the vast, overwhelming majority of threats are to 
> the 
> windows platform. Hence, you are perforce, ignoring a segment of the 
> 
> audience here.
> 
> But the primary issue that your well spoken argument hasn't 
> addressed, 
> is, it's really isn't relevant to irises. Not in the way the 
> occassional 
> topic that is directly related to irises in the electronic world is, 
> 
> such as online iris references and commercial web pages and the 
> like.
> 
> I would be happy to provide  you or anyone with links to low-volume, 
> 
> announcement only (in other words, just alerts, no long-winded tech 
> 
> discussion like I am prone to) lists about major new threats. Though 
> 
> heavens knows, I have those chatty type of lists too...
> 
> Cathy
> 
> 
> Char Randall wrote:
> 
> >Cathy, I appreciate your point of view and over the past few years 
> have
> >learned to value your opinion. But...I would ask you to consider 
> that a
> >lot of us do not have your up-to-the minute virus alert warnings 
> and
> >information on a daily basis. We probably all have virus checkers 
> of some
> >sort and may or may not have them updated daily, weekly etc. Just 
> in
> >"chatting" in the past tho, a lot of these update routines are out 
> of
> >date or not configured for newer software, OS, ISP, or email 
> addresses.
> >What would you think about a subject tag like Patrick suggested 
> and
> >similar in function to the ADMIN, that is for the list owner's use 
> only,
> >could be used? Or maybe he could designate one person who is 
> up-to-the
> >minute on bona fide current virus threats (not hoax) to issue a 
> reminder
> >to update virus info? That would be one message, periodically only 
> when a
> >real threat looms? Or at least if messages on an iris talk or iris 
> photo
> >forum contain a virus warning. 
> >
> >One of the reasons I ask is that I went over to the iris photo 
> list
> >trying to see if I could understand why Mr. Peters was leaving this 
> list
> >so abruptly. I thought maybe I could read some past messages there 
> and
> >get a better understanding. Anyway, shortly into reading some 
> messages,
> >the ones about viruses started coming up. At that point, I thought, 
> you
> >know maybe I should just manually update now. So I stopped what I 
> was
> >doing, updated my virus info and ran a full system scan. All clean. 
> I
> >would not have done that tho if not for the reminder that there are 
> virus
> >among us! 
> >
> >This one is a tough one, I value your and Patricks opinion very 
> much and
> >can see both ways on this. Personally, I'd like a brief message if 
> a real
> >threat exists.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Char Randall
> >Melba, Idaho
> >
> >
> >On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 13:46:21 -0400 Catherine Button
> >
> >  
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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