ALL anti-virus is hours/days behind any malware/virus release. Until it's in the wild, Symantec, McAfee, Avast!, AVG, etc. won't be able to develop definitions to remove them. Can't tell you the numbers of problems I've had at various jobs, even when all computers have expensive, paid for, AV protection like Syamantec/Norton (including Endpoint), McAfee, Kaspersky, and currently Microsoft ForeFront.
When I worked at Dell, 90% of the techs there used Avast!, BTW.
Thanks!
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Brian Ehni
LAN Tech
VCHA Support Group, Children's Hospital Administration
2200 Children's Way, Suite 2410
Speaking from the point of view of a corporate support tech and, having to deal with this sort of stuff 24/7/365 for over 20 years, please forgive if this sounds kinda frustrated. Most email and anti virus spam filters are about 98% reliable. If it dumps it in the spam folder, DON'T OPEN IT, there is more than likely a very good reason it ended up there. And, even if it was a mistake, more than likely its because the person sending it did something that made it look like spam (no subject, one line body saying "Hey look at this!" with a link and nothing else, etc). The sender needs to learn how to send email properly. If the ask why you haven't responded, tell them to send it again. Usually when they have to do it again, they do it right. Last, before I step off the soap box, get a GOOD anti virus/spam blocker. That usually means a paid for one, not a freebie, like Avast! or Panda. Trust me, I've been doing this long enough to know that the freebie ones are not much better than a bandaid on a knife wound. They will only catch the most obvious of intrusions. Rob Mc. (steps off the box of Tide and returns you to your regularly scheduled train stuff)
From: ralph linroth <wcman8@yahoo.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, March 28, 2013 9:34:48 AM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Sad News...Scammers still at it
Yes I got scammed over night. I opened a e-mail in my spam folder from this list on a current subject. Password is now changed. Bud Linroth
--- On Thu, 3/28/13, BRIAN PAUL EHNI <bpehni@gmail.com> wrote:
From: BRIAN PAUL EHNI <bpehni@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Sad News...Scammers still at it
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, March 28, 2013, 1:55 PM
As long as people keep falling for it, they'll keep doing it. Then they'll move on to a different scam.
Thanks!
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Brian Ehni
I wonder who is behind this scam. It is sure getting tiresome.
--- On Thu, 3/28/13, Larry Graus <larry.graus@opc.com> wrote:
From: Larry Graus <larry.graus@opc.com>
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Sad News...ralph linroth
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, March 28, 2013, 6:26 AM
Hope you get that arm fixed . . .er, Ralph. Tell the hotel mamanger that the cash is in the mail and maybe he'll let you go. Practice your English a little bit before you write your next sob story. We've heard this line before. We were born a long time ago, but we weren't born stupid!
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, ralph linroth <wcman8@...> wrote:
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> I'm writing this with tears in my eyes,my family and I came down here to manila,Philippines for a short vacation unfortunately we were mugged at the park of the hotel where we stayed,all cash,credit card and phones were stolen off us but luckily for us we still have our passports with us.
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> We've been to the embassy and the Police here but they're not helping issues at all and our flight leaves in less than 10hrs from now but the hotel manager won't let us leave until we settle the bills. I need help urgently, Though, I suffer little injury on
my left arm. I have talked with the hotel manager but she insist they don't accept a third party credit card. She further explained that the only method of payment they accept at the moment is cash.
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> Hoping to hear from you...
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> ralph
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