| From: | Darren.Stewart |
| Date: | 18 May 2000 at 09:54:24 |
| Subject: | RE: Is Internet Safe? |
Thats a somewhat reckless statement.
All Amiga users should at the very least run an upto date anti virus program
from time to time.
Any - and I mean Anything downloaded should be scanned - whether its from
Aminet or Not.
De-archive to RAM, Scan, then install.
I de-archive any internal archive files as will within main archives.
There have been several Virii on aminet and having 100% trust is a tad
reckless.
Regards
AdmV
-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Carey [mailto:gglennc@home.com]
Sent: 17 May 2000 22:06
To: amigaOS3_5@egroups.com
Subject: Re: [amigaOS3_5] Is Internet Safe?
Lets see in almost 10 years on the internet with the Amiga I have got
about 0 viri, if you stick to sites like Aminet you are fairly safe
Jay wrote:
>
> So I have my Hard Drive running, and I found a couple of unpackers
> (X-Arc.lha and Menu-Lzx_Lha.lha) on Aminet that should unpack BoingBag1...
>
> http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/info/www/dirs/util_arc.html
>
> But I'm not about to try to get Miami running over a null-modem until it
is
> safe to venture onto the internet. Has anyone had bad run-ins with
viruses?
> Do you recommend a good virus protection program? I've never heard of
> anything like Norton for Amigas, but something that extensive may not be
> necessary.
>
> By "good" I mean something that can check for everything on or off
schedule
> and something I can easily turn off when I don't want it. I would think a
> virus detection program that works like one of the exchange programs would
> be useful.
>
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