01-01-2010 at 12:28 PM
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Threats/Viruses from ELM
The other day, I was on ELM and I opened a course outline for one of my term 2 classes. My Sophos warning popped up, saying it was trying to block threats and viruses from ELM.
Has anyone else had this problem?
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01-01-2010 at 01:26 PM
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Probably just a fluke. In my opinion, Sophos doesn't work very well and commonly identifies things as threats, which are clearly not. I got rid of it when it kept insisting to me that Starcraft was a virus.
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01-01-2010 at 01:43 PM
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Are the term 2 courses up on ELM? Mine aren't up yet...
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01-01-2010 at 02:23 PM
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Are the term 2 courses up on ELM? Mine aren't up yet...
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Mine aren't up yet either.
I switched my anti-virus to microsoft security essentials. I also hate sophos, plus aren't they switching anti-virus providers?
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01-01-2010 at 02:26 PM
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Mine aren't up yet either.
I switched my anti-virus to microsoft security essentials. I also hate sophos, plus aren't they switching anti-virus providers?
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01-01-2010 at 02:28 PM
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Have you tried Avira? I use it and it's awesome.
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I think I've tried it before. I've also used AVG and Avast!. I never have virus problems and I've never actually had an alert before. So I usually just try anti-virus programs to see which is the lightest but still offers good protection.
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Common sense is also a pretty good anti-virus program  .
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01-01-2010 at 02:31 PM
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Lol, definitively. That's probably why I've never gotten an alert before.
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