Hi, Kurt...

KW>y'know what, i'm an f-prot user too... i'm also subscribed to f-prot's
KW>virus alert mailing list, but i chose to draw data from sophos because
KW>they had more data to draw from (for example they have an actual online
KW>virus encyclopedia)...

  I have both the F-Prot and Sophos websites marked for the same
reasons. Except for F-Prot for DOS, I don't know of any other virus
protection for DOS...and every so often, I get a user with an old system
logged onto the BBS. For them, I have copies of the DOS version, and the
virus data files online for download.

  Plus, if I boot up Windows XP in safe mode, I can do a system virus
scan with DOS. And, F-Prot for DOS is free for non-commercial use. I'm a
registered user of F-Prot for Windows, and will definitely renew when it
comes time for it. I saw that they are beta testing a new version of
F-Prot for Windows right now as well...but, I'm going to wait for the
official release...the data files are certainly doing their job.

  The Sophos information link is good...I see where Microsoft issued a
patch "out of cycle" for that VML vulnerability "out of
cycle". I think
already 6 trojan horses, etc. were circulating to exploit it. It
would've been "suicide", IMO, for M$ to wait until the next
"cycle date"
came around to release a patch. According to comments on the Sophos
website (as best as I can recall it), "Microsoft has to be smarting from
another vulnerability find". Browser wise, the wife and I use the
Opera web browser...and from what I've seen, it has had the fewest
security issues of any browser.

KW>come to think of it, i also used to use mcafee, but that was a long,
KW>long time ago... also thunderbyte anti-virus and integrity master (i
KW>wonder what ever happened to wolfgang stiller)...

  When McAfee changed to an "online scan only", got rid of their DOS
version, and upped their price, that's when I switched to F-Prot. I will
check the McAfee site, along with F-Secure, and Sophos for hoax
information. Every so often, I get a strange email. I used to fall for
those hoaxes myself, but I'm the more wiser now. :)

KW>wow, you must not get many strange emails then... i get so many i
KW>stopped looking at them... if i don't know who the person is and the
KW>email isn't about something i've legitimately said or done somewhere it
KW>goes into my junkmail folder immediately (thunderbird's bayesian
KW>junkmail filter helps with that a lot)...

  I use MailWasher Pro as my spam filter, and it really helps. But, I
had to kill the original email I had, as it got spoofed for spam. I also
get a bunch of spam from spoofing off of my website and web domain, but
I have a note clearly posted that "no emails originate" from that
domain. I purposely disabled that one to avoid spam...but every so
often, something shows up. I just "blacklist and report it" with
Mailwasher Pro, and it never actually enters my mailbox reader, per se.

  Thanks for your postings here.

Daryl

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