Klarinet Archive - Posting 000230.txt from 2003/04

From: Kenneth Wolman <kenneth.wolman@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] .pdf (was The Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium)
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:32:47 -0400

At 07:51 AM 4/8/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>I really didn't know that so many people were that paranoid about computer
>viruses-or viri as we call them here.

Klarinet is why I purchased Command AntiVirus last year--$25 gets you a
year of updated versions, new virus definitions, and a lot less
space-hogging than Symantec's comparable product. There was great concern
here last year, as I recall, about virii--I don't recall whether someone
got "hit" but the word got around via Mark, I think it was, to take all
reasonable precautions. This Command software recently caught a completely
virus-riddled directory on one of my drives and cleaned it up before the
garbage spread--aka, it paid for itself.

This installation of Eudora is running off a machine at work. It's covered
by the corporate old favorite, McAfee. I've heard varying things about
McAfee ranging from "Good stuff" to "Useful as a screen door in a
submarine." I'm not a security expert so I don't know.

In fact because I'm the "hub" for three machines in my house, all linked to
cable, I've got both the antivirus product and something called ZoneAlarm
Pro. There IS a significant loss of speed. But it's worth it when I check
the logs and see how many unaccounted-for alien presences have pass through
my domain address, either harmlessly or with other things on their
minds? Who can tell?--but who wants to find out?

Ken <sometimes there really IS someone following you>

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