How to scan ALL files?

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@Lars-Erik

I work in a large software company and there are ALWAYS someone that manages to open an infected attachment (and one is enough).

It also happens at my work. Today someone opened a dangerous attachment and IT needed 3 hours to put everything back to normal.

@writerguy

Could it be that many of us are sort of morbidly fascinated by the whole idea of email attachments/virus infections? Sort of like car wrecks and train wrecks – you know it’s tragedy, but it’s hard not to look. ???

Gary, from day one that I worked with a computer I’ve always been fascinated with the security aspect. Through this all I’m now the most asked person in my department for helping them out with software & hardware problems. It takes some load off from IT.
I still like to help people to the best of my ability, as you found out.

;D Not morbidly fascinated, but close.

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@EVdB

;D Not morbidly fascinated, but close.

;D Yeah, I’m sort of the same way. I have soooo many things I’m supposed to be doing most days trying to make a living (??) doing freelance writing and affiliate marketing. But instead I struggle to limit the time I spend online doing antivirus, email, spam related things, etc.

Ah, well. My wife is very understanding, very supportive, and so far we’re making it.

Gary Speer

[system]

Yeah, the one time my company was infected (with the LoveLetter), it was ~literally~ because ONE guy decided he “wanted to see what would happen”. >:(

He was a computer-literate guy, too - he knew what was going to happen.

We lost a lot of graphics files on the server because of that. Amazingly enough, he didn’t even get in trouble hardly. (This was before our big IT upgrade came along).

Amazing what people will do.