Doug, one of the members, told the group of a problem he had. He said that he thought he had picked up a worm though an e-mail attachment. He said that he had noticed a file in the Windows Task Manager that had not been there before - ILE.exe. The members used a search engine to scan for the file and found that it was probably the Bagle worm or a variant. The group searched for tools that would remove the worm and found two that may work: http://www.bitdefender.com/html/virusinfo.php?menu_id=1&v_id=330# and http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/tools.list.html

The group discussed how to scan for viruses since the worm had disabled the antivirus program on the computer. The group found a site that rated and compared antivirus programs and explored the site: http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/products.xml?table

Richard made Doug a CD that contained some freeware security tools: a firewall, a virus scanner, the Microsoft Anti-Spyware tool, and the latest version of Firefox.

The group discussed future topics for TCS General Meetings:

• sharing printers,
• encryption programs,
• Gimp
• WiFi hotspots in Tulsa,
• having a computer security expert do a demo at a meeting.

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