What exactly do the "infection alerts" say? Do you get a virus name in the alert? I ask this because there's a chance that it might be a popup ad or something of that nature. Do you have a firewall? If not, I suggest you get one. Zone Alarm is a very handy, free firewall. There's a link in my signature to the download site. Check it out.
Bloodhound is what NAV picks up as being an unrecognized virus... Most of the time, it's already been discovered, and there are already definitions out for it. In your case though, you said you update your AV fairly often... I would think it would register a name. If I were you, I would quarantine the file next time you see it, then send it to Symantec for further investigation (instructions for this contained in link above). Most people say it takes 2 weeks plus for them to reply to your question, but I sent them a file about a month ago, and they responded within a few hours. Give them a try, then hit me back with what they say.
Go ahead and download Zone Alarm though if you haven't already. There's a chance that someone could be dropping trojans onto your computer to check out it's contents. NAV would pick that up as Bloodhound, and ZA would help defend against this.
Quick question. You, along with many others promote Zone Alarm pretty heavily. Before my new Dell 4600 desktop, I used Zone Alarm on an old Gateway and liked very much how it monitored incoming and outgoing traffic. Since I got this new puter, I can't seem to run ZA because of conflicts with MSN's firewall. Should I be running ZA instead of the MSN firewall. Do you think that it's better and if so how so.........I look forward to hearing from you.........
MSN, AOL, and many other ISP's throw out extra "goodies" in order to get their name out, and to charge people more for their service...
Kinda like this new "faster" dial-up... I've never experienced it, but if it's anything like I think it is, it's just 5 bucks more you're loosing, and it appears that you're "surfing" much faster. When actually, you're not. Can't go by my word though because I don't know anyone around me that uses this new "faster" dial up, so my word is equal to a poor, homeless, fellow's word.
IMO... trash MSN's software. There are ways to get into MSN's service through what I like to call "backdoors". I call it that because it sounds more awesome, but really, you're just setting up a "Dial Up Networking" program that's provided with MS Windows. Takes a few minutes to do, but you don't have to go through the ISP's software, which can sometimes be more frustrating than a telemarketer. I went directly to the HQ for my ISP to sign up for it. They gave me a CD, and told me to use that. I asked him if they allowed DUN, and the guy gave me the lip, so I got his manager out... Manager said yes, and gave me the dial up number, and POP3 addresses for Outlook Express. So now, that CD's just collecting dust. Before this ISP, I had been using my buddy's MSN account through a DUN connection. No MSN software involved. So yes, MSN can be configured to work without their software.
Geez... I like to talk.
Anyway, to answer your question... ZA's the way to go. MSN works only to a certain extent, and most likely provides very unsafe protection. Use ZA.
modoc48
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DemoniK
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August 20th, 2004 21:00
What exactly do the "infection alerts" say?
Do you get a virus name in the alert? I ask this because there's a chance that it might be a popup ad or something of that nature. Do you have a firewall? If not, I suggest you get one. Zone Alarm is a very handy, free firewall. There's a link in my signature to the download site. Check it out.
Jason
DemoniK
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August 20th, 2004 22:00
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/bloodhound.html
Bloodhound is what NAV picks up as being an unrecognized virus... Most of the time, it's already been discovered, and there are already definitions out for it. In your case though, you said you update your AV fairly often... I would think it would register a name. If I were you, I would quarantine the file next time you see it, then send it to Symantec for further investigation (instructions for this contained in link above). Most people say it takes 2 weeks plus for them to reply to your question, but I sent them a file about a month ago, and they responded within a few hours. Give them a try, then hit me back with what they say.
Go ahead and download Zone Alarm though if you haven't already. There's a chance that someone could be dropping trojans onto your computer to check out it's contents. NAV would pick that up as Bloodhound, and ZA would help defend against this.
Jason
jdog23
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August 21st, 2004 01:00
Hey Demonik,
Quick question. You, along with many others promote Zone Alarm pretty heavily. Before my new Dell 4600 desktop, I used Zone Alarm on an old Gateway and liked very much how it monitored incoming and outgoing traffic. Since I got this new puter, I can't seem to run ZA because of conflicts with MSN's firewall. Should I be running ZA instead of the MSN firewall. Do you think that it's better and if so how so.........I look forward to hearing from you.........
jdog23
DemoniK
121 Posts
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August 21st, 2004 02:00
MSN, AOL, and many other ISP's throw out extra "goodies" in order to get their name out, and to charge people more for their service...
Kinda like this new "faster" dial-up... I've never experienced it, but if it's anything like I think it is, it's just 5 bucks more you're loosing, and it appears that you're "surfing" much faster. When actually, you're not.
Can't go by my word though because I don't know anyone around me that uses this new "faster" dial up, so my word is equal to a poor, homeless, fellow's word. 
IMO... trash MSN's software. There are ways to get into MSN's service through what I like to call "backdoors". I call it that because it sounds more awesome, but really, you're just setting up a "Dial Up Networking" program that's provided with MS Windows. Takes a few minutes to do, but you don't have to go through the ISP's software, which can sometimes be more frustrating than a telemarketer.
I went directly to the HQ for my ISP to sign up for it. They gave me a CD, and told me to use that. I asked him if they allowed DUN, and the guy gave me the lip, so I got his manager out... Manager said yes, and gave me the dial up number, and POP3 addresses for Outlook Express. So now, that CD's just collecting dust. Before this ISP, I had been using my buddy's MSN account through a DUN connection. No MSN software involved. So yes, MSN can be configured to work without their software.
Geez... I like to talk.
Anyway, to answer your question... ZA's the way to go. MSN works only to a certain extent, and most likely provides very unsafe protection. Use ZA.
Jason