Guest guest Posted November 15, 2001 Report Share Posted November 15, 2001 Does anyone know about viruses on computers. I think I may have one, but not sure. A couple of months ago whenever we boot up the computer, the the 'Dial-Up Connection' box appears and automatically connects online. I've unchecked the 'connect automatically' option but the box still appears. I've looked at all the 'Internet Options' in 'Settings' but can't anyway of stopping it appearing as soon as the computer boots up. The 'Dial-Up Connection' would previously only appear when you opened Outlook or the browser window. My brother mentioned to me that it could be a virus as he had something similar a while back. Also, occasionally when I'm using Outlook Express and warning box appears (you know, the one with the big X in red circle) saying: Box Title - You need a newer version. Text in box - You are running an older version of this progrom click to download newer version. It only has an OK button, no cancel and the 'x' to close the window is greyed out. This makes me suspicious. We've got McAfee VirusScan and VShield installed on the computer. They came ready installed when we got the PC. I clicked on update VirusScan but nothing happens. Does that mean it's not working? If anybody knows anything or can point me in the right direction please help. I know nothing about virus protection or security for the PC and am wary that I haven't got anything up-to-date. Thanks. Janet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 16, 2001 Report Share Posted November 16, 2001 > whenever we boot up the computer, the the 'Dial-Up Connection' box appears and automatically connects online. This means that a program is trying to access something online. Have you installed anything around the time that this started to happen? You could try downloading a personal firewall (a program that controls what goes in and out of your computer). This ought to tell you what program is trying to access the internet. Try http://www.zonealarm.com for example. There is a free version here. > Also, occasionally when I'm using Outlook Express and warning box appears - You need a newer version I tried searching for this and couldn't find a match. Was your posting the *exact* text. Outlook 98 *does* have an auto upgrade feature although it seems a little unlikely that it would be set up on your machine (see http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q183/2/65.ASP ) > We've got McAfee VirusScan and VShield installed on the computer. They came ready installed when we got the PC. I clicked on update VirusScan but nothing happens. Does that mean it's not working? > If you right click on the VShield shield in the systray and select About from the pop-up menu this should tell you what version you are running. There will be a Virusscan version at the top, plus a virus definitions and scan engine version lower down (and some other stuff). If you have 4.03 or above of VirusScan then the latest engine is 4.1.50 and the latest signature is 4.0.4170. You have several options: If you run the AutoUpdate task from the scan console this will attempt to download the latest signatures. This could fail or may take a long time if it is trying to download an engine update. These are bigger and less important than the signature updates. If you look at the properties, click configure and then unselect all of the Advanced Update Options on the Advanced tab. This will allow you to do a signature update only. These come out at least once a week but are quite small if you keep up with them (at least every few weeks). If you get really stuck with that then download ftp://licensed:321 (AT) ftpeur (DOT) nai.com/licensed/antivirus/superdat/intel/4171xdat.exe which will upgrade signatures for 4.03 and later. It is 1.5Mb you could mail me if none of that makes sense. Also you could wait a day or so to see if anyone who actually uses OE can shed some more light on that bit of the message hth james Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 16, 2001 Report Share Posted November 16, 2001 on 16/11/01 01:52 PM, bin man at postmistress@... wrote: > You could try downloading a personal firewall (a program that controls what > goes in and out of your computer). This ought to tell you what program is > trying to access the internet. Try http://www.zonealarm.com for example. > There is a free version here. Do you know of any free firewalls for Macs? Jenni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 16, 2001 Report Share Posted November 16, 2001 > Do you know of any free firewalls for Macs? No, and I found a page that also doesn't know either (before OS X anyway) but suggests some not free ones http://www.free-firewall.org/mac-download.asp james Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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