Norton

[Tania]

I am new to XP. All the Microsoft patches that are coming in the mail. Is
Norton suppose to stop them? It hasn't been they are in my in box. Can
someone please advise me. Thank You.

 

[Kerry Liles]

Norton *might* protect you from opening the attachments (which are the
virus) - I say "might" because that always depends on whether or not your
virus signature downloads are up to date and the virus is not so brand new
that Norton doesn't have a signature to detect it (sometimes the Antivirus
companies are 24-48 hours behind the race)

But, the AV products typically do not prevent the email from reaching you -
to do that you have to look for proxy mail servers and similar products that
let you (or automatically) examine mail on your email server.

Once my AV program handles the virus, I don't really worry to much about
receiving more of them (although this latest round of trash DOES waste some
bandwidth, but I am on broadband, so 146KB a pop isn't that serious).

HTH

 

[FromTheRafters]

I am new to XP. All the Microsoft patches that are coming in the mail. Is
Norton suppose to stop them? It hasn't been they are in my in box. Can
someone please advise me. Thank You.

Some other folks have posted instructions on how to filter
these out using Outlook Express.

Good luck.