comp/net virus protection

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Originally Posted by jester

Has anyone hear heard of "Personal Antivirus"? Apparently, it's a program that attaches to a computer and tries to get you, the consumer, to purchase their product. It's constantly "popping up"

A few summers ago, I monitored the internet for all incoming packets. Repeatedly found packets that say something like "Your computer has been found infected. Download this antivirus software..." These packets would arrive about every 40 minutes with a reply address that was traced to Northeast China.

Amazing how many times this spam routinely arrived to so many computers. Of course, even the Windows 98 machine ignored it because no 'Window' was waiting for a message addressing that port. IOW you may not know how many internet packets with such popups and other malware are routinely rejected by your machine even without Anti-virus protection.