[BC] is some new virus out there?

[Cowboy]

On Sunday 27 November 2005 02:23 pm, Barry Mishkind wrote:
>At 12:11 PM 11/27/05, Donna Halper wrote
>
>
>>I use Netscape, and use Trend Micro for my virus software, but it 
>>seems these viruses stay one step ahead of the fixes for them...

 That's because almost all virus scanners are *re-active* appliances.
 They don't really defend against what they know nothing about.
 A HUGE reason for keeping your definitions up to date.
 The better scanning companies release new definitions immediately
 when a new virus is discovered, sometimes several per day.
 The scanners that use holistic scanning techniques are best, as they
 are *pro-active* appliances, but they can still miss some stuff.

 Currently, I'm using Avast on the lone windows machine here.
 It's pretty good, and fully automatic, checking and installing updates
 from Avast at least daily, or every time it sees a connection to a 
 network, whichever allows it to be updated.

>         This is because the internet email
>         usually returns bounces to the "from"
>         rather than the header provided address.
>         In turn, this is because some geeks
>         prefer to stay anonymous.   An email
>         standard that would prevent this is
>         not that hard.  They just don't want it.

 It's actually BEEN the standard, since at least 1982 when Eric Allman
 first wrote sendmail as an improvement to the delivermail program
 then in use at Berkeley, such that BerkNet mail and ARPAnet mail
 ( as well as UUCP ) could be transported across those networks.

-- 
Cowboy

http://cowboys.homeip.net

One thing the inventors can't seem to get the bugs out of is fresh
paint.