On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 11:48:55 +0000, Gary Wooding
wrote:

Jon Danniken wrote:
"Richard" wrote:

...snip...
According to your "data", because I don't use Norton and use IE and OE I
should be flooded with worms and virii, but as is the case, I am not, nor
have I *ever* had a virus or worm infect any of my various boxes over the
last five years with IE and OE. How do you explain that, Richard?

Jon

Then you are just lucky. Two days ago I was asked to help out a friend
whose computer was misbehaving. It turned out to be a particularly nasty
bit of malware which, because it had destroyed part of the OS (W2K
Prof), I reckoned was best eradicated by a fresh install of W2K. I saved
his user data onto a FAT32 partition, reformatted the C: drive as NTFS,
reinstalled W2K and restored the user data. I installed AVG and
downloaded ZoneAlarm, then ran the AVG scan and it found two Trojan
horses - one was wudpcom.exe. So, even though we hadn't opened any
attachments, a few hours after a totally clean install his system was
infected by two worms - but AVG got rid of them.
As I say, you're just lucky.

Just put him in the killfile, I don't think I want to see anything
that comes out of that machine. He's probably got a whole pandora's
box in there and hasn't figured it out yet.

Rich