[Moon-net] [Mw] MonaRonaDona

[Darrell]

I assume U are talking to me Steve?????

Regards, Darrell

At 01:25 PM 3/1/2008, Steve Harrison wrote:

>At 12:25 PM 3/1/2008 -0400, Darrell wrote:
> >I tried nearly all recommendation suggested, nothing worked except
> >this small removal tool that appeared since last evening.
> >Here is the link that worked great on my XYL's machine;
> >http://rapidshare.com/files/95966868/RemoveMonaRonaDona.exe
> >
> >Regards & GL, Darrell...........Do NOT Mess with the Registry in Safe
> >Mode as some have suggested, it only worsens the situation.
>
> From your e-mail's header, it looks like you're using Eudora 7, which is a
>good step except you're probably still reading your e-mail in html or Rich
>Text. You should keep your e-mailer set to text only, and limit the
>download size of e-mail attachments to something small like 15 kb or 25 kb.
>Then you should set up an attachments folder so all e-mail attachments get
>downloaded into that folder where you can examine them as they come in, and
>delete them if you don't absolutely have to have them. You should open this
>folder in Exploder (my fav name for uShaft's explorer) so that all such
>attachments show up at the very end where you can easily see their title;
>otherwise, if you open the folder AFTER they're downloaded, they've been
>indexed within the folder wherever they fit (alphabetically, etc.) and it's
>hard to see what you just downloaded. That way, you can delete dumb files
>containing logos, smileys, *.dat "cards", etc. and keep the folder "clean".
>
>Next: if you're using IE as your browser: STOP. Start using Firefox
>instead. FF isn't perfect, and there's even been some
>worms/virii/other-nasty-stuff written for it; but it's infinitely safer
>than IE since not much is being written for it. The only use I've ever
>found for IE is to download updates from uShaft (since they still cannot
>accept the fact that Firefox is a way better browser than IE will ever be)
>and to download Firefox, itself. Thereafter, IE just sits in my software
>catalog, waiting till I decide I might need some uShaft update that they
>won't allow me to download/install using FF.
>
>But what's confusing is how your whole home network got infected. If you're
>conned through a cable modem, you should have a router. The router is your
>first defense against the wild web and has its own firewall. It does NOT,
>however, do virii-checking but it prevents web bots and the like from
>accessing your network on the home-side of its internal firewall.
>Virii-checking has to be done through each individual machine. You SHOULD
>NOT have your network set up so each machine can automatically connect to
>one another. If you presently DO have your network set up that way simply
>so all your computers can easily share files, a far more secure setup is to
>simply download such files onto flash memory cards and physically carry
>them from one machine to another.
>
>Then you should have your own firewall turned on in each of your home
>machines and security set to each machine's requirements. It's often
>preferrable to have security set slightly tighter than your normal,
>everyday browsing habits so when you absolutely have to download something
>that normally won't make it through your firewall (Active-X controls,
>etc.), you have to manually allow it.
>
>Finally: if you have ANY software set to "automatic update", TURN IT OFF.
>Do NOT allow anything to automatically update, INCLUDING uShaft. Especially
>pay attention to any chatting software you may have such as AIM, Yahoo,
>ICQ, etc. Also pay attention to software from places like Kodak or Acer
>(for your camera, scanner, etc.). Some of this is absolute perfidious: the
>only way I've found to stop Kodak from doing it's sneaky thing is to delete
>the subdirectory containing its auto "update" files. There is absolutely no
>reason at all to use such software to download images from your camera or
>scanner, since you can do it FAR quicker, and with FAR better security, and
>FAR easier, using stuff that came with your uShaft XP (such as, for
>example, uShaft Office's Photo Editor, which I think they obsoleted a few
>years back and you may have to search the web to find).
>
>Enuf sed on this stuff, back to uWaves  ;o))
>
>Steve, K0XP
>
>
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>2/29/2008 6:32 PM
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