March 27th 04, 12:03 AM
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/windowsxp/antivi
rus.asp
for a FREE year of anti-virus from microsofts security
site,check the one from computer associates,you'll need
to follow the instrucrions to remove norton,and load
there's,also comes with a free year firewall too!Need a
email where they send you a link to download to.I down
load music too,Norton never would catch it till the
damage was done,I downloaded EZ-AV from CA and it found 4
trojan's Norton didn't catch!I've got kids that play the
on line games,Norton would let them on and try to fix
it,UNABLE TO ACCESS FILE,CA removed 'em and repaired,I
like it very much during a game it caught a trojan and
disconected from the game before it was loaded,and it was
FREE,in 10 months,I will be renewing this product.I'll
never load Norton or mcAfee again.This is a great product
for free,also really GOOD firewall lets you know when
your computer access's the internet and gives you the
option not to let it.You should get ad aware too if you
don't have it,it's FREE too,from
http://www.webattack.com/get/adaware.shtml get
it and run it,when I had a virus Norton couldn't
access,ad aware removed it was a 900 dialer,trying to get
my dial modem to call a 900 #,good thing i have cable.Got
that one from Kazaa music.
>-----Original Message-----
>I've got another virus. I don't understand this - I
>don't download files (except for music occassionally and
>then vendor has an anti-virus program running). I am
>running Windows XP Home edition. I have Norton anti-
>virus (which I'm begining to think is worthless since
>I've been "infected" a dozen times since I've had it -
>always by somekind of "backdoor.trojan"
>or "download.trojan" and it NEVER finds it til after the
>fact and is never able to repair the infected file.
>Plus, I run two different firewall programs and my AOL
>uses virus scan.
>
>At any rate, a windows file, the "ast_exe" program was
>infected and has been quarantined. What is this
>program? What does it do? Is it essential? And, how do
>I get a replacement copy? Thanks. Steve K
>
>.
>
rus.asp
for a FREE year of anti-virus from microsofts security
site,check the one from computer associates,you'll need
to follow the instrucrions to remove norton,and load
there's,also comes with a free year firewall too!Need a
email where they send you a link to download to.I down
load music too,Norton never would catch it till the
damage was done,I downloaded EZ-AV from CA and it found 4
trojan's Norton didn't catch!I've got kids that play the
on line games,Norton would let them on and try to fix
it,UNABLE TO ACCESS FILE,CA removed 'em and repaired,I
like it very much during a game it caught a trojan and
disconected from the game before it was loaded,and it was
FREE,in 10 months,I will be renewing this product.I'll
never load Norton or mcAfee again.This is a great product
for free,also really GOOD firewall lets you know when
your computer access's the internet and gives you the
option not to let it.You should get ad aware too if you
don't have it,it's FREE too,from
http://www.webattack.com/get/adaware.shtml get
it and run it,when I had a virus Norton couldn't
access,ad aware removed it was a 900 dialer,trying to get
my dial modem to call a 900 #,good thing i have cable.Got
that one from Kazaa music.
>-----Original Message-----
>I've got another virus. I don't understand this - I
>don't download files (except for music occassionally and
>then vendor has an anti-virus program running). I am
>running Windows XP Home edition. I have Norton anti-
>virus (which I'm begining to think is worthless since
>I've been "infected" a dozen times since I've had it -
>always by somekind of "backdoor.trojan"
>or "download.trojan" and it NEVER finds it til after the
>fact and is never able to repair the infected file.
>Plus, I run two different firewall programs and my AOL
>uses virus scan.
>
>At any rate, a windows file, the "ast_exe" program was
>infected and has been quarantined. What is this
>program? What does it do? Is it essential? And, how do
>I get a replacement copy? Thanks. Steve K
>
>.
>