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Brush with a virus.........am I alright??

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SharkB8

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If this is the wrong place to post this, I'm sorry. Someone here will be able to answer this. This morning someone e-mailed me the W32.Magistr.24876@mm virus. It was an e-mail from someone named "Maxine" (I don't know any Maxine) and the subject said "#@$%*". Right when I saw it, I new it was a virus so I tried to right click it to delete it but instead it tried to execute. Luckily, I have Norton A/V Corporate Edition 7.03 installed and "realtime protection" caught it and halted everything. Norton cleansed this virus from my system.

Here is my question. Do I have anything to worry about? Does Norton A/V do a good job of taking care of viruses? I have done several virus scans, rebooted, and scanned again and nothing was found. SARC shows this virus as a "Top Threat" and that their software can take care of it. Hey, I'm a little wigged out here since this is my first brush with a virus.:Q
 
well if you ran the program that said, "we can take care of it" i wouldnt worry. If it was still in your system you would have noticed it already..
 
According to Norton, it took care of it. I guess my main question is did it take care of all of it. I just checked my e-mail here at work and it is here also. There are a handful of friends that have my work address too so obviously one of them has this virus.
 
yea, Norton took care of everything... if you still have worries... update all Defs.. (virus defs)

and do a full system scan🙂

Bryan
 
I really believe that Norton did take care of it. If it didn't, what good would Norton A/V be. I have done several virus scans with the most updated definitions both before and after several reboots and all have turned up nothing. I do appreciate the reassurance.
 
yea i got some lame virus i my e-mail too, seems like a lot of people have been getting em lately, whats up with that? (know 4 other people locally who got it), norton stopped mine too
 
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