Flex Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Anyone doing anything different for virus protection or added precautions? I've just had 87 evil looking emails through (never had more than 10 in one day) and they've all just blitzed my inbox. Scary @*!#. I'm running F secure and my domain provider is supposed to have screening in place for emails. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetSet Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Nope, nothing different. I only check my E-Mails every month or so, unless of course I'm expecting something. Most of the junk goes into the spam box anyway and AOL are pretty good at diverting suspicious stuff there too. I always assume that if anyone important like the bank or doctor wants to contact me then they'll phone or write. Pete 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WINKJ Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Nope, nothing different. I only check my E-Mails every month or so, unless of course I'm expecting something. Most of the junk goes into the spam box anyway and AOL are pretty good at diverting suspicious stuff there too. I always assume that if anyone important like the bank or doctor wants to contact me then they'll phone or write. Pete or vets I hope with all those cats you have Pete! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
370Ad Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 I work in the industry and its definitely getting worse. 160 thousand new bits of malware are now produced everyday. The criminals are now getting very clever too...take CryptoLocker for example. I would definitely make sure you have a decent AV/firewall programme installed and up to date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WINKJ Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 I work in the industry and its definitely getting worse. 160 thousand new bits of malware are now produced everyday. The criminals are now getting very clever too...take CryptoLocker for example. I would definitely make sure you have a decent AV/firewall programme installed and up to date. can you recommend the best vs affordability ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhackyWill Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 We are now running our mail through our Domain Servers anti virus as well as our own. so get through that Houdini.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
370Ad Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 (edited) I work in the industry and its definitely getting worse. 160 thousand new bits of malware are now produced everyday. The criminals are now getting very clever too...take CryptoLocker for example. I would definitely make sure you have a decent AV/firewall programme installed and up to date. can you recommend the best vs affordability ? I imagine there will be a lot of opinions on this so I will try to be impartial: Anything in the top right hand quadrant will be good I use McAfee total protection 2014 at present, £30 for 3 machines. http://www.ebuyer.co...zUibPbRIrnw_wcB You can get some for free and some which aren't as resource intensive but I believe the CPU/RAM is used up for a reason. So is therefore a good trade off for protection. Edited June 4, 2014 by 370Ad 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinmac Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 I was listening to something about this on the radio yeterday. As I understand it the main target would be small businesses and they would have least protection, experience with IT and time to process e-mails. I understand its all still about attachment really. I get about 30 e-mails per day and dont touch anything unless its obvious what it is. I have adequate protection in place so assume I should be ok. Having said that I have about 50 courier deliveries to sort out and a fair amount of banking issues to resolve. Happy to be told otherwise but I think I should be ok. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jumping350 Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 (edited) what next! its just taking me 7 days to get back on my ebay as I forgot all my security stuff, pretty scary really and I watched Die Hard 4.0 the other day which doesn't help This is one of the reasons I stay away from internet banking everything just gets hacked Edited June 4, 2014 by jumping350 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M13KYF Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 I've been busy sending them out, good to hear you got my emails Flex 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebized Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Just booked an appointment with the Doc for a check up so hopefully I will be virus free Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Posted June 4, 2014 Author Share Posted June 4, 2014 I've been busy sending them out, good to hear you got my emails Flex Cheers Mike! I've just bounced them back to you with some photos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stutopia Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 What's a virus? Sent from my iMac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 If people didn't click things they shouldn't, like uninvited links and attachments, you'd never need virus protection really. Firewall is a must-have, but sensible people don't really need AV. /controversial Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinmac Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 What's a virus? Sent from my iMac You havent heard the latest then, the new stuff can target Macs, scared the hell out of me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomdotc Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Worth reading up on Good Game Zeus virus thats been floating about for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bounty Bar Kid Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Stop looking at porn dude! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Pot, meet kettle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Posted June 4, 2014 Author Share Posted June 4, 2014 Pot, meet kettle. and his friend, Grundy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Stutopia Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 What's a virus? Sent from my iMac You havent heard the latest then, the new stuff can target Macs, scared the hell out of me. I was just stirring, I take sensible precautions. Wipe clean keyboard, private browsing, antibacterial hand wipes.... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twobears Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 I've just had an e mail with no heading or content and it purported to come from the past - 1970 to be precise. Someone said it might be something to do with how unix creates dates but I've no idea as I'm not technical. Should I be worried? I'm on my iPad so no AV software as such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtbiscuit Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 I use bit defender total security for the pc. Surface tablet has ...i don't know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrogBoglin Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 I have used AVAST free anti virus software for the last year or so on my phone and pc and it works just as well as Norton which I used to pay £40 a year for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stutopia Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 I've just had an e mail with no heading or content and it purported to come from the past - 1970 to be precise. Someone said it might be something to do with how unix creates dates but I've no idea as I'm not technical. Should I be worried? I'm on my iPad so no AV software as such. Is the sender someone you know and trust? If so, you very likely have nothing to worry about on iPad. Over 99% of mobile malware is android. Desktop malware is laregly Windows focused, but I don't know the % share, so you'd be more at risk if you opened it on your PC. If you decide to open it, you'd be very unwise to allow it any access it requests like Contacts or Safari, or dog forbid, allow it to install anything. Given the closed eco system on a non-jailbroken iPad you should be totally fine. The system is built with security in mind from the ground up, not as an after thought. General good practice still stands. If the sender is no one you've ever heard of and is neither a mail you expect or a response to an email you've sent, I'd just bin it and empty the trash. If it's from someone important they'll re-attempt or contact you another way. Even if you do read the mail in iOS then, as above, you'd be extremely unlucky to be vulnerable to the <1%. It goes without saying if it's an untrusted or unknown sender, never open any kind of attachment or view any movie or click any link, never reply, head straight to trash and then put the bins out. If your iPad is jailbroken, good luck, it could be anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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