Klarinet Archive - Posting 000015.txt from 2003/08

From: "James Hobby" <jhobby@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] E-mails with viruses
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 19:38:38 -0400

I know some people don't like Mcafee, but I've found it effective. It has
an autoupdate feature that checks every time you go on line, and if there's
an update available, automatically download it.

Jim Hobby

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nancy Buckman [mailto:eefer@-----.net]

> Hi Mark,
>
> This is probably a dumb question, but how often should one update their
> virus checker? I have been doing it daily because i get 200-300
> e-mails/day. Am I over-doing it?

>Most virus checkers today have an "automatic download" feature that will
>update them every week or so (every major update). However, with that
>quantity you might want to do it manually, in between major updates.

>With the quantity of mail I have (only slightly higher than yours on this
>machine - work has their own system) I manually update every 2 or 3 days,
>but I believe most people will do fine on the automagic update.

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