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saintboye (m)
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Hello All,
We maintain many cafes, but they always complain of worms. Please is there a way to know the trojan infected mails? How can one detect a trojan infected email without opening it?
How can one stop the spammers as well?
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layi (m)
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As for trojan. AUpdate your antivirus softwares. Anti-virus detects worms. Also u can check the file extension before opning it. Most hackers use a binder software to attach the worm to the decoy-file. It would then have extension such as 'doc.exe' , 'jpeg.exe' , 'wav.exe' etc. Such file contains a trojan horse prog. just delete. But the best bet is to maintain the latest antivirus software (and disable downloads in cafe). Admin must be contacted before anyone should be allowed to download.
As regards the spamming, u can't do anything about that except your mail server has got a spam guard to detect bulk-mailings. Yahoo has got spam guard.
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tomcat
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If you want to avoid the costs of paying licence fees for antivirus...AVG antivirus...is a good and free antivirus...and it updates itself quite regularly... http://www.grisoft.comI used it in my pc...and is working just fine.... it is also used in a lot of commercial servers.... |
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polo (m)
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Hi, the best ways to get raid of trojan infected mails is getting a good anti virus, which should be updated regularly.you can configure your anti virus to scan all mail automatically before opening them(this setting depends on your anti virus.i know u can do that with avg anti virus and symantec) Secondly you have to have a good anti spyware and adware. you can download one from the microsoft site. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=321CD7A2-6A57-4C57-A8BD-DBF62EDA9671&displaylang=enGet it and make it scan your system for spywares and trojan worms at all time. I hope you find this useful. Cheers  |
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larger_20 (m)
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Some e-mail providers will not even allow u to open them......advice your customers to use trust worthy e-mail service from yahoo and hotmail. also to make the matter best..You can configure your system to not download anything from the web. That is a strick restriction that should be adhered to.
You can do this in the administrator setting which can only be opened by the cafe administrator. During computer update, use the admin setting to download important software then go back to square one.
So sad am not in nigeria to help u yah but i am sure some people i nigeria do this because when my friends come online to chat with me, they still use old yahoo and hotmail chat program becasue the cafe center cannot let them download anything.......keep it on the down low
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c0dec (m)
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Hello All,
We maintain many cafes, but they always complain of worms. Please is there a way to know the trojan infected mails? How can one detect a trojan infected email without opening it?
How can one stop the spammers as well?
use linux!  |
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goodguy (m)
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Linux?? It's not so common in Nigeria. Anywayz, I think you should follow Layi's advice. I think AVG is also a very good antivirus. Get the CD or download it from their site. www.grisoft.com |
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showlankie (m)
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i will advice as pol had earlier done, the microsoft anti spyware is good enough against spywares and all, with a norton antivirus for systems with a strong config PIV 2.0Ghz and above. AVG is recomended for systems with lesser resources
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Seun (m)
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I recommend AVG antivirus for all systems, as long as they run Windows. It's free for individual use and it's good.
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Komputa (m)
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I used AVG but it is not effective in deleting Trojans.....it detects but to delete is a problem.
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larger_20 (m)
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The best way to deal with virus is first use programs like adware personal from lavasoft then also use norton antivirus..after doing this..restart your computer in safe mode. Then open the file where the computer is located and delete it.....
For very difficult viruses, I recommend hijackthis but this program should be used by people who really understand their system very well becasue it not only takes out the virus but can fish out suspicious looking files which could be a system file..so u might as well delete something that your computer uses to run in the process of gettining it to work...
The best of its best is to use the reformatting Cd that came with your computer to wipe out everything so that your computer will be like new however u will loose your file......if u have two drives..u can just move important files into one of the drives then reformat only one...
Reformatting of CD for people with only one drive will require that the user should an external drive before he does reformatting or else the user will loose all his or her files..
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layi (m)
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...note that files should be scanned before moving to an external storage device else you would only waste your time reformatting.
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goodguy (m)
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But how can u scan them when the system is already infected?
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