Has anyone heard of this virus...Jeru.1808.Anarkia? Norton found it on my computer and deleted it, but just wanted to warn everyone to run Norton daily (or whatever virus protection you have).

heheheh thought you were calling me :P

I run Norton System Works Every 2 Dayz.

I don't run Norton or McAffee at all. I'm half convinced that they are where the virii are coming from in the first place. I mean, it's pretty certain that they'd be out of business if people stopped spreading virii. Instead I use programming tools to examine my threads and processes, both software and external hardware firewalls to block access where I don't want it, and don't run programs that I don't completely trust.

a search on alltheweb.com for the name found this link

Odd that it doesn't give full details, but it appears to be simply one of many jeru.1808 viruses, possibly a jerusalem derivative, (and that's going back a while :) Bit of a risk there Dodger, and while I don't doubt they talk up the danger that a good many viruses out there pose, some of them are very smart and very dangerous. I'm just waiting for something to latch onto the distributed spyware rings, like brilliant digital, etc. That could get nasty. Then of course there are things like the, currently theoretical, "Warhol" virus, (so called becuase it could infect the whole 'net in 15 minutes, no joke, I've seen the math.) Just out of interest what do you use for an OS, browser & mail client? later jb

Depends on which box I do what with. I run poser on IE, do my mail and news on Linux in elm usually, and I surf the web on whatever I'm on at the time (and I don't run Flash, ActiveX, or even Java). But I'm not risking anything -- my LAN is locked down tighter than Fort Knox and you can only get infected if you run infected code through the processor. So I don't do that.

I don't do email at home at all, too risky. I surf from my laptop which I can afford to lose, should I need to rebuild. I gave trying to keep a handle IE's vulnerabilities, switched to Mozilla's phoenix project, v swish, much better even than Mozilla 1.2 Which flavour of Linux you running? later jb

Slackware 7, build-it-yourself Linux, with patches here and there. The only way to swim in the Antarctic. B^) MySQL and Apache (with mod_perl), both compiled from source, too, make up most of the Webserver (well, along with Perl, also from source). I'm trying to come up with a good antispam solution, but I can't seem to figure out a way to block all email from Korea in qmail sigh.

Oh, yeah, and for the security on the Linux box, I have one of the best things around... A security expert. B^)