Swen Worm Invasion

[davewaldron]

I have the same experience as John. Norton detects the
Swen Worm emails and prohibits opening attachments but
they just keep coming. I do not have Norton AV but I do
have MS Firewal enabled. The problem however, is that it
constantly becomes disabled when I shut down causing me
to enable it every time I boot and before fetching email.
MY ISP then shows it is firewalled but I get a message
from MS that changes may not take place until a reboot!!
I have asked MS about why thishappens numerous time and
they never provide any light on why this happens. I have
installed XP Home 5 times and done all critical updates
and all the Outlook updates but have never soleve dthe
problem of thes settings not being saved.

 

[oldone]

Dave , if the XP firewall is the only one you have better
get another. The Xp only checks incoming data not
outgoing. Download a good free one from Zonelabs..
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp
Also get free antivirus - AVG - at..
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Dave , if the XP firewall is the only one you have better
get another. The Xp only checks incoming data not
outgoing. Download a good free one from Zonelabs..
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp
Also get free antivirus - AVG - at..
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php

.

 

[Dad2ten]

Dave:
I had the same problem after a reinstall. I just finally deleted that e-mail
account and created another. Wasn't that hard to edit my account info.at the
places where I'm registered. No more Swens since.
Jerry

 

[Tom R.]

I found this in another group, maybe it will help.

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