Vernon Frazee

[Nick Grana]

Slow down, son. I'm huffing and puffing trying to keep up but I'm losing ground fast.
Great job! You are dedicated and a credit to this forum.
Don't jump up and down yet as many others deserve the same compliment.
Take a breath.......
Nick

[DuaneB]

Indeed. It's a very impressive body of work. Thanks, Vernon.

[TJolly]

Vernon

Didn't you sleep last night?

Thanks for all the hard work. I'm impressed.

[Vernon Frazee]

Thanks Guys but, there are a couple of selfish reasons behind all of this:

1. The millions of infected computers out there are trying to infect all of the computers I am personally responsible for as well as my own personal computers.
   
   In fact, Malware, SPAM and Privacy problems are rapidly turning into a bloody worldwide epidemic.
   
   Solution: Help VirtualDr educate the users of those infected computers. We all have got to start doing something . . . somewhere, somehow, someway.
   
2. There is also the hope that VirtualDr will become the largest, free solution to solving Malware, SPAM and Privacy problems. Folks are increasingly screaming for solutions. I want them to come here.

[Doc]

It is great that you were able to find all of these sites and post them for the rest of us.

You are right in that education is the best defense to computer problems. The individual posts and stickys go a long way to helping everyone.

Just a thought though, as it can get monotonous having all of these separate posts which will be going to the bottom of the list as more people post, and all of these stickys that will stay on top and will eventually take up the whole page, how about if VirtualDr creates a FAQ that can link to all of these great suggestions and answers.

Considering that so many posts are repeats of earlier problems a FAQ will be better than trying to get everone to do a search for their problem (which they do not do now).

Just a thought.

Doc

[SuperSparks]

The stickies won't be staying in the forums, we do have plans for them. Stay tuned to this site folks

[Vernon Frazee]

SuperSparks is correct. And sorry about all the recent Posts and Stickies in here. As most of us are all well aware though, "Security and Privacy" problems are immense and we, (the VirtualDr staff), are just getting started with trying to figure out how to get a handle on it.

Infectious PC diseases in our online world are rapidly approaching epidemic proportions. Logon on today and not only does your PC immediately risk infection from Viruses, Spyware, Trojans, Worms, Adware, Parasites, Malware, Keyloggers and Scumware, you are confronted by Spam, Financial Scams and Indentity Theft. Here are but a few facts to ponder:

1. In the first six months of this year 4,677 new Viruses were released. That's 25+ per day ... and that is just viruses alone.
   
2. EarthLink and Webroot Software recently scanned over one million Internet-connected computers and on average they found almost 28 Spyware programs running on each computer.
   
3. Even more serious, they found Keyloggers and RATs on more than 30% of all systems scanned.
   
4. Another study conducted by AOL revealed that 62% of broadband computer users did not have current Anti-Virus software. (See "A" above).
   
5. They also found that over 90% of users had Spyware installed on their systems.
   
6. Even our United States Department of Homeland Security is lamenting the fact that millions of users have not secured their systems.

If we are interested in helping to fight this global epidemic, we need to:

1. Educate ourselves and our Members
2. Eradicate all diseases from each Member's PC
3. Inoculate every Member's PC against further infection

One heck of a lot to do I know. But we're off to a good start. Not only does our new separate "Security and Privacy > HijackThis Logs" Forum enable us to concentrate our efforts on a specific problem, it is reducing the "HijackThis Log" clutter in all the other Forums.

As it stands right now though, that leaves but one other "Security and Privacy" Forum for everything else. Current News, Warnings and Updates as well as the necessary Tools, informational/instructional Articles and helpful Links must ALL be placed into our "Viruses/Trojans/Spyware" Forum. Confusing I know, but currently we have no other choice.

We are working on a solution however.