h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

i would just like to let everyone know about a trajon horse virus being sent via e-mail. Its sent as the subject being postcard. DO NOT OPEN.

You're either spamming or have been deceived. When you receive such a warning you should always copy the relevant bits (the 'virus' name and context) and search it: you'll usually find many, many sites telling you it's a scam dating back a couple of years. Then pop links to a couple of the whistleblower sites in a reply back to the person that warned you and ask them to check before spamming their friends' inboxes with such tripe in future.

Or I just missed the point and you were joking.

Yes.

What he said.

And you never need that many !s.
RF

Yesterday I got a warning about a Post Card that should not be opened. That was a virus I was told.

Later I had a long lecture about going to unknown links and downloading stuff that people send and making myself vulnerable to trojan horses.

Then tonight Norton Internet Security actually sent a Trojan Horse to go off at 10pm and then Norton said that unless I paid £33 subscription the virus could take over my puter. Bad Norton bad bad.

Glad we don't use norton anymore. But still.. er I'll be careful. Also don't open this one that says( only on hotmail and such) Life is buetiful. AN AMZXINGLING BAD VIRUS!! *ding ding ding* Have a nice day *ding ding ding*

thats the same one as i had. Then norton security froze my e-mail account. Took forever to unfreeze it

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What comes first the virus or Norton, I don't know if they put a virus scare around to make you keep them, or if the virus creeps in and tries to make you fed up with your security and get rid of it.

no i am not spamming and i find that as an insult. Its a trojan horse by the way and yes i do know what it does

not sure just know i had this e-mail in my bulk folder. Then norton security kicked in. The thing is I haven't subscribed to norton since it expired months ago

Norton have totally messed me up spent most of the day trying to sort it out and I am subscribed until November.

I have heard that, as Nortons is the most popular AV program, designers of viruses etc will specifically design them to overcome Nortons.

I used to use Nortons and my coomputer crashed - when I had it investigated they found that it was riddled with stuff that had crept in via Nortons. I am always very virus aware so this was shocking to me, I immediately uninstalled Nortons and changed to Command AV - haven't had any problems since (touch wood) and it certainly picks up quite a few.

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