Can your system be infected?

[ED]

Here is a neat page to enable you to test your system's email progarm to see if your able to get infected by worms, even if you don't open attachments. Safe and effective.

http://www.gfi.com/emailsecuritytest/

Did you pass?

The BEST is good enough!

[ED]

Here is a neat page to enable you to test your system's email progarm to see if your able to get infected by worms, even if you don't open attachments. Safe and effective.

http://www.gfi.com/emailsecuritytest/

Did you pass?

The BEST is good enough!

[gwpriester]

XoneAlarm Pro warned me about the first two attachements. The third Eudora 5.1 said there was no application associated with the file and I needed to specify an application with which to open the file.

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[Wolfgang]

Passed as well ...

Zonealarm and Norton AV did a good job in every test.

Phew, I guess I'm happy now, at least until the next security hole ...

Wolfgang

[ED]

It's nice to know your system is good to go. Mine passed too.

Too bad I didn't know about this page before I got Nimda... it could have found the hole and I would have fixed it before getting infected.

Pass this link on to your friends.

The BEST is good enough!

[jens g.r. benthien]

sorry ED, my firewall didn't allow their server to send something - they tried to send a string via a prohibited port, so everything they sent had been treated with a silent drop, which means the page didn't display.

It's not only your mail program that features open barn doors for intruders...

I'm glad I have a 'honey pot' setup where all bad guys trap in and trigger a killer process ;-}

FIESTA !

jens g.r. benthien
designer
http://jens.highspeedweb.net
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[Peter P.]

What these tests can't test, is how stable the programs are. Long time experience of many users (just check out some forums and newsgroups like I do on a regular basis) tell us that the Norton anti-virus system can many times do more harm than offer a cure. Numerous reports mention crashes and a lot of other problems caused by installing Norton anti-virus. My personal experience was exactly the same.

[Erik Heyninck]

My system also passed the tests without any problems.
I agree with PeterP. One of Sheckley's paradoxes is that everything you do to defend yourself is the cause of new dangers.
I had a lot of problems with McAfee's updates. Up to now, with Panda, I had none. But as it checks while Win loads, you never know, and a virus scanner takes valuable system's resources.