*New Virus Warning
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*A Newsflash about Norton's Subscription Renewal
*And Task Scheduler To Be Continued at a Later Date
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Hello everyone!
Well, Memorial day will soon be upon us, and school will be out in less than 2
days. Oh, yeah!
My two boys, Jake and Brian, will be "helping me to get this newsletter
out" :).
*New Virus Warning*
So, hope everyone is doing well, staying busy, and enjoying your computer.
I recently heard from a very nice lady who was very concerned about the
possibility that she had spread a new virus around to all her friends. The
new virus is called: W32.Magistr.24876@mm, also known as: I-Worm.Magistr,
PE_MAGISTR.A, attachment, worm-like behavior, which means it gets in your
operating system, and your address book and sends itself out to all your buddies
to wreak havoc on as many people as possible. You can read more about this
virus at (you may need to copy and paste this entire address in your browser if
you don't see all these words as a colored hyperlink):
www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.magistr.24876@mm.html
Here is the top threats page at the Symantec website, if you're
interested:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/index.html
Whatever happened to those endearing names like the "love virus" or
"prettypark"? I think the criminal
element that is unleashing these viruses upon society is getting nastier!
Keep your anti-virus software updated, because there is more and more to protect,
yourself from these days. You can refer to my anti-virus updating
newsletter to reacquaint yourselves with the updating, downloading procedure at:
www.rockyreport.com/arm_yourself_against_viruses.htm
I'd also like to say, "you keep your anti-virus software updated, and
that's all you can do". Don't let the bad
guys push you around, and make you miss out on a lot of great email. They
have won the battle when that happens. Many people think that if they
don't accept email from strangers, or don't accept .exe attachments, they are
lessening their chances of getting a virus. This strategy will not save
you if the virus is a worm or Trojan, and it intertwines within your address
book, and it sends out to all your friends, and their friends, and so on.
That is the nature of the "beast", it will come from your friends.
One more thing, don't have a guilty conscience about this, just keep your
anti-virus software updated, and understand that this is email, and it's not a
matter of placing blame on ourselves when some uncaring person sends out a
malicious element. We're all just doing the best we can!
*A Newsflash about Norton's Subscription Renewal*
Recently, I helped my mom with her anti-virus updating and discovered a
marvelous thing. She was getting the
message that her anti-virus software was expired and it was time to renew the
subscription. We clicked yes to view information about the renewal of the
subscription for another years worth of anti-virus definition downloads, and
prepared for the big price. To our surprise and delight, the price for
renewing this subscription was just $3.95 + tax= $4.26. This is the
bargain for the year! Score One more for Symantec, also known as Norton.
You can go
through the procedure very painlessly by filling out the information for your
name, address, and so forth on a
very secure 128-bit website (this is the best it can get to insure your privacy
for giving a credit card #, and I
believe it even had a place to call to give that information if you are more
comfortable doing so), you will notice a
lock on the bottom of the page. After you go through this procedure, they
will send you a confirmation email and
you need to print this out, and save it. It will contain the receipt
for your purchase, and an order # that you
should have in the event that you had to reinstall all the software on your
computer because of some sort of computer failure. You will need that
order # to substantiate your purchase and renewal subscription.
This is sooooo worth it, to keep your computer safe. The purchase price
for the new program is $29.95 up
to $49.95, and getting another year's worth of anti-virus definitions is a real
bargain at just $4.26! I think that this proves that Norton has your
best interests at heart. They are really making it affordable to update
and keep you having a wonderful computer, internet, email experience. By
the way, Sam's and Wal-Mart usually have the program for $29.95.
On a reality note, I would like to add, that I have had a couple of problems
updating the anti-virus definitions with the 2001 version of Norton's Anti-virus
software on some computers, but reinstalling the program seemed to work
out the updating problem. It doesn't want to download and update the virus
definitions sometimes, so be sure that you check this out after you have
downloaded the anti-virus definitions, by opening the program, and looking at
the system status screen, and check the date that your anti-virus definitions
are "up to date". If the program
isn't updating properly, it will show a date from months ago, and you will
see a yellow exclamation point by the task; if it is updating properly, you will
see a date close or exactly to the day you have updated the anti-virus
definitions, and there will be a green checkmark beside it.
I will get back to you, guys and gals, on the task scheduler for Scandisk and
Defrag soon. I wanted to talk to you all about these subjects on Viruses
and Anti-Virus software while it was fresh on my mind. The Task Scheduler
will take a little time, and there's a new story on Diskeeper that I want to
tell, so I'll talk to you again, soon.
Hope you all have the VERY BEST DAY!!
I appreciate all of you. Remember that I will have all these monthly
issues of my newsletter available at my
websites, along with other information:
http://www.rockyreport.com
And
http://www.internetguideandmore.com
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