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Email scan notification box annoying?

by breinc Dec 26, 2005 8:59PM PST

When Pccillin Internet Security 2006 scans my email, a popup comes up each time it finds a virus. I get hundreds of emails a day and this is extrememly annoying. I wish it would just give a beep or something.

Sometimes, I am doing something and accidently click on Halt Internet Traffic button in popup instead of Close. That's when the fun begins. The dialog box says to click on taskbar icon to restore internet but but now, the icon is GONE from taskbar and I can't find the damn thing. I have to reboot to get that icon back so I can restore my internet traffic.

Is it just me or does this annoying event happen to everyone?

Running Windows XP Media Edition.

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I have never used that
by roddy32 Dec 26, 2005 10:23PM PST

particular program but I would think if you go through the help file or the options, there should be a setting somewhere for that. I use Norton myself but I have it set to delete viruses that arrive via e-mail silently so I don't get nagged if it happens. It creates a backup of what it deletes and I go into that folder occasionally and either delete it completely or restore it if it happens to be a false positive which rarely happens with Norton. I would think that your program would have a similiar setting somewhere.

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Strange that
by MarkFlax Former Forum moderator Dec 26, 2005 10:42PM PST

I use AVG and it scans my incoming emails, and it rarely finds any viruses. In fact I can't remember the last time it did. I get anything from 50-70 emails a day.

But most of my emails are junk/spam anyway, and I have set my email software to junk/delete them as soon as they arrive.

Either my AV doesn't check an email until or unless I try to open it, and so it gets deleted without the virus trying to get a hold, or AVG isn't doing its job.

If I was getting so many virus infected emails that my AV kept popping up and interrupting the flow of incoming emails I would begin to wonder about the source of all these emails, and whether I could do something about it, or whether my email "rules" were insufficient.

Just a thought, and I mean no disrespect.

Mark

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I also use AVG
by bglover51 Dec 27, 2005 6:07PM PST

And it's email scanner catches maybe 1 infected email per month. I'd guess I get 40 emails per day and 35 are junk on average.

My guess is either your PC is already infected and that is why you keep getting infected email alerts from PC Cillin or PC Cillin itself is malfunctioning.

The reason I say this is, frankly, I seem to get tons of infected emails whenever there is a huge outbreak going on. I can tell from the number of infected emails when things are active. (My email address is "out there" and any time there's an outbreak of email viruses I get tons of infecteds). There was quite a bit of activity three months ago, but it's been pretty quiet of late. Only an occasional stray sober comes my way of late.

It could also be that one person's computer is infected, and spoofing your email address as the return. Then, you would receive any returned infected emails that computer is sending out (how most of my infecteds get back to me).

If that's the case, you'll have a hard time tracking down the "real" infected computer. Just delete the emails. It won't stop PC Cillin's alerts tho.

Can you turn off PC Cillin's email scanner? AVG has that option. If you do that, you better be extra careful opening emails since so many infecteds seem to be coming your way. The best way to avoid getting an email infection is to never open any attachments. If it's a business account that may not be practical. Clients probably send you attachments. You can download the attachments to your desktop then scan for viruses using PC Cillin before opening (right click on the file after downloading to desktop and there will be an option to scan the file for viruses(.

Just some thoughts that might be helpful.

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I use
by PudgyOne Dec 27, 2005 6:28PM PST

I use Avast and AVG (bad boy)

I have a gmail account and I try blocking all the spam before I download it to my computer. The spam filter on the server is pretty good and now that gmail scans the messages also, I haven't gotten an email with a virus in a long time. But in case I do, I have both of them to back me up.

Also don't forget beginning January 5 or 6, 2006 The next Sober virus attack. The full story can be read here

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3513_7-6405253-1.html?tag=nl.e757

What I'd do to be safe is, go here and download the Sober removal tool.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/FixSbr.exe

Start the computer in the safe mode and run the tool before January 5, 2006

That way you know your computer is not infected with the Sober worm.


Hope this helps.


Rick

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Why reboot?
by Edward ODaniel Dec 28, 2005 3:18AM PST
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