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Date:	Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:55:42 PST8
From:	"John A. Morrow, Jr." <ja_morrow@yahoo.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	SCOUG-Help <scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Multiboot Antivirus Protection

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Hello!

My darling sons have infected two of our PCs on the same day;
one at home and one at UC Davis. The one at Davis was running
Winblows XPeriment, with Symantec Antivirus, and the one at home
was using W2k, also with Symantec.

We have been unable to rid ourselves of Serflog.A, a yet
unidentified Trojan, and other associated nasties, and consider
our reliance on Symantec to be an unmitigated disaster. My sons
both got the infection through MSN Messenger (a lesson here, to
be sure). My eldest has had to reinstall XP and I expect the
offender at home will have to reinstall Winblows, too. The
burned hand teaches best.

Through my association with DoD, I can download Antivirus and
firewall products from Symantec, McAfee, and Trend Micro for
free. Uncle Sam doesn't want us bringing viruses from home to
work on laptops or thumb drives. Since McAfee also makes
VirusScan for OS/2, I am thinking of trying out both the Win32
and OS/2 versions of VirusScan. To my knowledge, PC-Cillin does
not come in an OS/2 version, although the windows magazines rate
it highly, so it is tempting, too.

Any comments on the effectiveness of either product at
preventing infection? Or recovering from one, once hit?

Also, my son asked me if I could scan and disinfect my FAT32
Partitions from eCS 1.2. I have my doubts, but anybody care to
venture an opinion on this, too?

TIA,
John Morrow
Templeton, California

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