So much talk about klez. Consider it a wakeup call suggesting that you do some housekeeping on your computer and maybe take a good hard look at the maintenance/upkeep practises of your computer and files. Some things worth considering that have been mentioned before... Disable Windows Scripting Host in Windows 98.(unless you want to write custom scripts) Disable preview panes in Outlook. Don't run suspect attachments. If in doubt, right click the email in Outlook and have a look at the properties, particularly the return address. If its prefaced with an underscore or the address is faulty, trash the email. Take an image of your computer/s when you have things just the way you like them. Keep updating it and keep the image handy Next time you get a bug or your machine slows down to a crawl, copy the image back (overwriting the exiting one)- presto instant perfomance increase and no virus. Back up your data files RELIGOUSLY. Learning this lesson the hard way really sucks and it doesnt take a virus to cause it, a hard drive failure may never happen to you or it may happen in the next 60 seconds. Don't trust one set of backups, floppy disks fail all the time. Burn a copy and keep a duplicate set of your critical files on another drive. If you have a network or DSL, you should already have a firewall and anti-virus software, no exceptions. Set up a backup regime, don't back up JUST your cut files or JUST your financial files. Do them all - email & address book/s included. If you don't know how, find someone that does. With hardware being so cheap and such comprehensive software available there really isn't any excuse. Visuses these days won't perform an unconditional format of your drive (touch wood) they'll just muck things up a bit, whatever harm they cause provided you take reasonable precautions it'll just be a very temporary annoyance. Its only a virus. Please add other practical precautions besides virus software which has already been thoroughly covered. HTH, David
Posted by Steve Burke (Member # 2674) on :
Hey David,
You are sooo right. I had my demo PC crash and burn, and no back-up. I lost about 3 years worth of demo EDGE files...man, did I feel stupid. . We had a customer get broken into, and ALL of their PC's were stolen, and again, no backup.
Listen to this guy!! Posted by AdrienneMorgan (Member # 1046) on :
David, thanks for the heads up!
I have DSL and disabled my firewall so I could download music from Limewire.....
I forgot how I did this and want to put it back on.....can you tell me how?
![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
. We had a customer get broken into, and ALL of their PC's were stolen, and again, no backup.![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)