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<blockquote data-quote="lclev" data-source="post: 1611715" data-attributes="member: 307555"><p>And I am very glad you have had so little problems. I wish I could say the same. I unfortunately, work with people who are not so cautious and in a Windows environment. When I first came on staff as IT, I had to educate them about all kinds of things. I have had to chase down numerous virus/malware issues. Truthfully, I am not all that convinced that any anti-virus program works that well but most do help with email scanning and that seems to be the biggest potential area of infection. </p><p></p><p>I had one incident happen when my boss click on an email attachment file that changed all the file extensions to exe while hiding the original files. It was a W32 worm. She thought the email came from someone she expected to get a pdf from but she didn't really look at the file extension name. She did realize she had a problem and I was able to get to it quickly, which help minimize the damage.</p><p></p><p>It started to travel to all the shares on her computer and got to one of my servers before I shut it down and took it off-line. It created files like sexy.exe and porn.exe and let me tell you, in a church environment that got everyone hopping! I will say it made for a long night for me. And it was a Kaspersky tool that finally removed all of it on the server and one infected computer. And I had good uninfected backups. Never discount a good backup! </p><p></p><p>So to say there is no need for anti-virus on a Windows computer is just not true IMO. I have not found all inclusive suites that cost a fortune to be worth it. They are resource hogs IMO. But a good (and there are some free ones) virus program can be an asset.</p><p></p><p>Lisa</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lclev, post: 1611715, member: 307555"] And I am very glad you have had so little problems. I wish I could say the same. I unfortunately, work with people who are not so cautious and in a Windows environment. When I first came on staff as IT, I had to educate them about all kinds of things. I have had to chase down numerous virus/malware issues. Truthfully, I am not all that convinced that any anti-virus program works that well but most do help with email scanning and that seems to be the biggest potential area of infection. I had one incident happen when my boss click on an email attachment file that changed all the file extensions to exe while hiding the original files. It was a W32 worm. She thought the email came from someone she expected to get a pdf from but she didn't really look at the file extension name. She did realize she had a problem and I was able to get to it quickly, which help minimize the damage. It started to travel to all the shares on her computer and got to one of my servers before I shut it down and took it off-line. It created files like sexy.exe and porn.exe and let me tell you, in a church environment that got everyone hopping! I will say it made for a long night for me. And it was a Kaspersky tool that finally removed all of it on the server and one infected computer. And I had good uninfected backups. Never discount a good backup! So to say there is no need for anti-virus on a Windows computer is just not true IMO. I have not found all inclusive suites that cost a fortune to be worth it. They are resource hogs IMO. But a good (and there are some free ones) virus program can be an asset. Lisa [/QUOTE]
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