Brett Kay wrote:Ok Bob, will help you out on this one. And give a very valid response.
If you are using Outlook express, or Outlook, or any hard drive based email client i.e something that you just click and it downloads your emails. There are two things you can do.
Number one, Create an email
aaaa@aaa.com and put that in your address book.
Simple rule of this is, that if you have a virus on your computer that is sending out emails, you will get bounce backs from this address. When or if that happens, run your virus checker or send it on to the nearest computer store and ask them to fix it.
Number two, don't open any attachments from people you don't know. So simple yet so often misintepreted.
As for all the email you get from friends about such and such a virus, scam or person who has done something that can delete your harddrive. Just type in the main part of the email into google and 9 times out of 10 you might find it in snopes or use the "site:" command for google.
I.E Postcard virus site:www.snopes.com
Which should bring up hopefully the right result.
As for current viruses around the Internet. Best site is usually
Trendmicro think they have a stats page, and you can narrow it down to a country.
Got to remember good computer viruses are much like human viruses. They want to get the most out of a cell before the cell literally burst apart releasing more viruses. So in a computer, deleting the hard drive, doesn't serve the replication process too well.
Thank you so much for your genuine concerns and sincere reply to my queerie Brett. You my friend no matter what people may say are a true gentleman and I and many other non savvy users really appreciate your help on the forum.
Unfortunately some of the young and not so young scribes on here have misunderstood my request or reasoning behind my post. I used to use "Hoaxbuster" which was so, user friendly but the US Govt. had stopped financing them recently so I was at a loss. I do have AVG and SPYBOT and I upgrade regularly.
I thought the forum would be an ideal place to ask as there appeared to be some computer smart people on here. Unfortunately it's like when I ask my son the following question.
How do I download songs onto my computer? He goes here, then there, and somewhere else and says there you go that's where I do mine, and that was it!!! Well it's there somewhere
and when I asked how or what do I do from there I get attitude so I say don't bother.
Isn't it funny how as a parent we needed to be more patient and understanding. We had to show our kids simple things like tieing their shoe laces over and over again. Or how to read, use a spoon and later a knife and fork or how to turn on a computer game and play it with them until they could do it themselves.
And now that they are 23 and 28 we are still showing them how to do simple every day tasks. And if we show the same attitude they crack the s-hits and you end up doing the task anyway, coz they tell their mum I didn't show them properly LOL.
Unfortunately in todays society it's all go and no slow and I still haven't downloaded a bloody song LOL. My mobile has something called Blue tooth LOL what's a friggin blue footh doin in my phone anyway?
So, I asked someone and they said blah, blah, blah, there you go it's on and I sent you a video from my phone!!!!!!!! Really I said. He says yeah have a look so he guides me through and says click on view video and OMG can you really do that with a horse?????????
Well that's it from me I thought I'd finish on a high note, and yes apparently you can.
So thanks again guys and gals I'm still in the learning mode and I'll keep asking and hopefully bad beat you on the felt, cheers Bob B
