Best resource is a site like www.symantec.com There is a walth of information therein and information about what are hoaxes but it's amazing how vulnerable she is making herself by not enabling proper protection. Should could not get away with this in the workplace as we regularly receive notifications from our data security team(s) to take certain measures. Amanda Lee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 7:40 PM Subject: ot, a virus resource needed > Hi all, > > I've got a friend who is one of theese people that only knows how to turn on and off her computer, and how to click on cute little icons to get windblows to magically and wonderfully do what she wants. She is very paranoied about running her virus scanner to scan the entire hd at startup, but she doesn't think that keeping her virus definitions is that important. > > She also believes myths such as the one that mp3s could be infected by a virus. Does anyone know of a web resource out there that could clear up a lot of theese myths in plain English? Thanks. > Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >