Brad Marks
BradM at blackforestltd.com
Thu Dec 15 10:05:08 CST 2011
I would guess that almost everyone has been burned by a virus in the past. Here are some things that I have done to reduce the risk on the "main" PC that I use for work purposes. Use an iPad for "web surfing" Have multiple PCs so that the teenagers don't use the "main" one Use Microsoft Security Essentials (free) Brad -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com on behalf of Gary Kjos Sent: Thu 12/15/2011 8:18 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] It just goes to show ya Whew! Glad your safeguards protected you. I had a virus creep in a year or so back. I know I messed up and did something I knew I shouldn't have. Took me about 10 hours of messing around to get it back the way it was. It became a quest to defeat the b at st@rds that did it to me though. GK On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 6:47 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote: > I got an email this morning - XYZ wants to be your friend on facebook. I > don't know xyz, but I often go look to see if maybe I do know them out in a > circle somehow. > > I clicked on the link... It *looked* just like those things from > Facebook... > > You guessed it, it was a social engineering attempt to get me to a page to > do something bad to my computer. > > I run firefox in DropMyRights sandbox AND I have a widget to prevent running > scripts in firefox which just saved my bacon. > > It just goes to show though. I *know* about this stuff, I am very careful > and I still got suckered. Only my safeguards saved me. > > -- > John W. Colby > Colby Consulting > > Reality is what refuses to go away > when you do not believe in it > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.