new level of virus protection

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February 1st, 1999, 10:28 PM
bdunn

new level of virus protection

I support computers at an army medical center and thought that I had seen everything till the other day. I got a call from a nurse about a virus problem. Well since this installation has a site license to Mcafee Antivirus i figured it just needed installing and running on the particular pc and that would be the end. I went to see the customer and there she was in her scrubs, mask, rubber gloves and all working on the computer. She insisted I dress similarly as she told me viruses can get through the clothing I was wearing. I tried in vain to explain to her that the chances of either of us getting a Word macro virus from her pc was nil.
May 12th, 2001, 08:23 AM
Radical Dreamer

ROTFLMAO!
May 12th, 2001, 10:56 AM
underfunded

Thats funny. I have never met anybody like that. Thank god... I'd probably kill them. or die laughing.
May 12th, 2001, 11:10 AM
Darren Wilson

Quote:

Originally posted by bdunn:
I support computers at an army medical center and thought that I had seen everything till the other day. I got a call from a nurse about a virus problem. Well since this installation has a site license to Mcafee Antivirus i figured it just needed installing and running on the particular pc and that would be the end. I went to see the customer and there she was in her scrubs, mask, rubber gloves and all working on the computer. She insisted I dress similarly as she told me viruses can get through the clothing I was wearing. I tried in vain to explain to her that the chances of either of us getting a Word macro virus from her pc was nil.

WTF is this???? Blast from the past day or something :) :) :)

Hey Radical Dreamer, I know you want to reach 1000 posts but this is silly :D :D :D :D
May 12th, 2001, 03:41 PM
Sowulo

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Originally posted by Darren Wilson:
WTF is this???? Blast from the past day or something :) :) :)

Hey Radical Dreamer, I know you want to reach 1000 posts but this is silly :D :D :D :D

I was wondering what was going on here. Hey Rad, did you figure out how to search for every topic to which you had never responded? :D
May 12th, 2001, 03:44 PM
Radical Dreamer

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Originally posted by Sowulo:
I was wondering what was going on here. Hey Rad, did you figure out how to search for every topic to which you had never responded? :D

No, I just got really bored.......so I decided to dig up some of the really old topics that noone ever replied to. Sorry if it bothered you guys. ;)
May 12th, 2001, 03:50 PM
Darren Wilson

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Originally posted by Radical Dreamer:
No, I just got really bored.......so I decided to dig up some of the really old topics that noone ever replied to. Sorry if it bothered you guys. ;)

No bother at all. In fact I do the same sometimes but don't reply as there is no real reason to (but that has never stopped me before :D :D :)
May 12th, 2001, 06:03 PM
Sowulo

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Originally posted by Radical Dreamer:
No, I just got really bored.......so I decided to dig up some of the really old topics that noone ever replied to. Sorry if it bothered you guys. ;)

No bother other than that flashback effect of recognizing some posts from the 'olden days' around here.
:D :D :D
May 12th, 2001, 08:16 PM
Radical Dreamer

Thats cool, just making sure that it didnt bother anyone.
May 13th, 2001, 05:08 PM
kennethstarrfp

Ever laughed your *** off in front of your mom? My mother's a (L)user AND a nurse. When our computer got a virus, well, you can guess can't you.
May 14th, 2001, 03:24 AM
AlienDyne

Quote:

Originally posted by bdunn:
I support computers at an army medical center and thought that I had seen everything till the other day. I got a call from a nurse about a virus problem. Well since this installation has a site license to Mcafee Antivirus i figured it just needed installing and running on the particular pc and that would be the end. I went to see the customer and there she was in her scrubs, mask, rubber gloves and all working on the computer. She insisted I dress similarly as she told me viruses can get through the clothing I was wearing. I tried in vain to explain to her that the chances of either of us getting a Word macro virus from her pc was nil.

LMAO!!!! :D :D :D
May 14th, 2001, 12:00 PM
SubZero

That's funny! Scrubs. I bet she mad you go and scrub out, too!
May 14th, 2001, 02:18 PM
twelve

I work for in the financial industry (tech for them) and I have users infect their files all the time. They discovered that they could right-click on the V-scan shield and disable it, then, why would word ask you to enable macros if you weren't supposed to?

Training has had no effect... I haven't fould a legal way to implement the cattle prod yet.
May 15th, 2001, 06:37 AM
FooL

Hey twelve, Norton Antivirus Corporate edition ver 7.5 will hook you right up with that problem. Users won't be able to shut it down. Set it up for real time scan and a dialy full scan during lunch break. Just a thought....sounded like a problem. :p
May 15th, 2001, 08:00 AM
MacGyver

InoculateIT has a similar feature. 60 seconds after shutting down their realtime scanner, the server automatically boots them off the network! It doesn't take more than once for the luser to learn.

Quote:

Originally posted by twelve:
I work for in the financial industry (tech for them) and I have users infect their files all the time. They discovered that they could right-click on the V-scan shield and disable it, then, why would word ask you to enable macros if you weren't supposed to?

Training has had no effect... I haven't fould a legal way to implement the cattle prod yet.
May 15th, 2001, 09:12 AM
Who Me

Quote:

Originally posted by bdunn:
I support computers at an army medical center and thought that I had seen everything till the other day. I got a call from a nurse about a virus problem. Well since this installation has a site license to Mcafee Antivirus i figured it just needed installing and running on the particular pc and that would be the end. I went to see the customer and there she was in her scrubs, mask, rubber gloves and all working on the computer. She insisted I dress similarly as she told me viruses can get through the clothing I was wearing. I tried in vain to explain to her that the chances of either of us getting a Word macro virus from her pc was nil.

What....you mean you can't catch virusses that way.........what am I going to do with all this rubber wear now then :D :D
March 19th, 2004, 11:56 AM
freddy

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Originally Posted by Darren Wilson

WTF is this???? Blast from the past day or something :) :) :)

Hey Radical Dreamer, I know you want to reach 1000 posts but this is silly :D :D :D :D

no a re-blast from the past
March 22nd, 2004, 01:41 PM
Camaro80z

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Originally Posted by freddy

no a re-blast from the past

You are a strange, strange man! :thumbs:
March 22nd, 2004, 01:58 PM
meatwad

I think I'm ready to find out just how easy it reall is to shoot fish in a bucket. :D
March 22nd, 2004, 02:02 PM
freddy

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Originally Posted by meatwad

I think I'm ready to find out just how easy it reall is to shoot fish in a bucket. :D

or dunkin for onion rings at Mcdonalds,

has,nt that Mcdonald guy done well since he sold his farm.

freddy
March 22nd, 2004, 02:08 PM
meatwad

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Originally Posted by freddy

or dunkin for onion rings at Mcdonalds,

has,nt that Mcdonald guy done well since he sold his farm.

freddy

Hey freddy, I've got a question for you. Is the apostrophe key broken on your keyboard? :D
March 22nd, 2004, 02:14 PM
freddy

Dyslexic englishman on a crap toshiba l/top keyboard
March 22nd, 2004, 03:24 PM
Gollo

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Originally Posted by freddy

Dyslexic englishman on a crap toshiba l/top keyboard

Don't get us wrong. we like the change :thumbs:
March 22nd, 2004, 05:00 PM
Diver01

Funny Stuff :)