AIM virus, any help

[whytheheckme]

Originally Posted by JBotAlan

-The IE skin is pretty good...you might be able to get away with making FF look exactly like IE...
-You need a good AntiVirus. Norton is crap. I don't know about McAfee, but I use Grisoft's AVG Free Edition. It gets the same virus database the commercial version does. It just doesn't have firewall/internet security features.
-Update *everything*. This includes Microsoft updates (http://update.microsoft.com). Install everything but the driver updates (those tend to break things) and you can forgo Internet Explorer 7 if you want.
-Put your system behind some form of firewall. Even a cheap-y Linksys router will put you behind a Network Address Translation device; this makes it much, much harder to intrude into your system.
-I hope you don't have dial-up...

JBot

McAfee is Really Nice..auto updates (like daily), it catches almost everything, and best of all, its FREE (to Comcast subscribers). Otherwise, it's fairly cheap ~100 bux I think, which is a small price to pay for data loss and frustration. The firewall is the r0x0rs... that is the cool feature. If you don't get the virus in the first place, you don't have to clean it.

There are plenty of good free ones out there to. Just PLEASE, read a cnet review on it before downloading (some 'virus scanners' are really viruses themselves.)

Jacob