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A little computer virus help...

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Wow, that's one I haven't heard of before. In fact, I couldn't even find a reference to that exe file on microsoft.com.

Strange.

Operating system? Virus scanner brand/version?
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c:\ie46bin.exe



What virus scanner do you have? They should have regular updated signature files for you to download. Unfortunately, it's hard to know just from this file name what the virus is.. this might be the virus, it might be a file created by the virus, it might be an infected file......


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You know, this has been a problem since we got away from floppy disks. With a floppy, you always had a floppy condem. You put it over your disk so you could have safe computing. In the old days they were made out of paper to fit our big floppies, in later years we had nice plastic ones to fit over our now more compact, but more stiff floppies.

Now with all this willy-nilly information sharing, everyone gets infected. Then it burns when you print out things from your computer. Or worst yet, you have to get the Blue Star Ointment out to fix your crabby computer.

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Norton, the Micro$oft of virus scanners.

Interesting how many virus exe's are written for attacking Norton.

It's like the M$/OE and Outlook phenom. The bigger you are, the more likely you are a target.
Solution? Avast!
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RB#684 "Corcho", ASK#60, Muff#3520, NCB#398, NHDZ#4, C-33989, DG#1

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I've been using it since it was in the early stages of version 3 (about 2 years, I think) and it's done a great job. Many MANY virus warnings, but has never allowed one to slip through.

I like it so much that I install it on every one of the computers I work on, and belittle those that actually pay for virus def updates from Symantec and Mcaffee.

In fact, when I removed Norton from my father's computer (not an easy task, by the way, Symantec is as bad as AOL for burying files), I installed Avast 4 and scanned. It found that 3 of Norton's files were infected. Norton never found them because, well, the virus was written to hit Norton.

I swear by Avast, after swearing at Norton one too many times.
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RB#684 "Corcho", ASK#60, Muff#3520, NCB#398, NHDZ#4, C-33989, DG#1

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Speaking of alternatives to Norton AV,

I've had great success with Panda AV.

No, It's not free, but , Again after having to (Surgically) remove Norton, Panda found several viruses in Outlook Express. Even after I had just previously scanned with NAV 2002 with all of the updates.

I haven't compared NAV 2004, but I was really impressed with Panda's performance.
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I have at various times ran virus scanners from all the big names. Avast just seems to work the best, and still uses the smallest footprint of system resources I have seen. I have not paid for a virus def update for at least 2 years, but I can say that if Avast changed and decided to make me pay, I'd have no problems forking over the dough. It's that good.
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No. What happens is when I try to open a scanned image in explorer, I get an exponential opening of Windows task managers that lock up my processor.

I did a taping of wingsuit stuff for the Travel Channel and I need to get the producer the images, and my computer is tweaking my stress levels.

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