[Golden Eagle]

These "MyDoom" articles on FR have reminded me to update my virus definitions every day for the past several days, and there's always something new. Usually, I update about once a week.

If you have any sort of permanent connection you should update every day. Usually the mid morning to early afternoon signatures have been built to block whatever comes from overseas that day. But you have to do this since even what may seem as extreme precaution may not be enough, as the virus sometimes advance in front of the virus, although that actually did not seem to be the case with MyDoom, there are just a lot of people who aren't upgrading fast enough that got caught and accidentally clicked those files. Bottom line, treat the dangers of the internet with deserved respect, and you'll be fine.

[wimpycat]

My computer automatically scans for viruses every Friday night at 8:00. I do have a permanent connection, but my modem has a "pause" button that blocks all traffic. I usually hit the pause button during the day while I'm at work, and before I go to bed at night.

Curiosly enough, I do have automatic live update enabled, but I still manually run live update, and I still get new downloads. But I don't see where it even allows me to set up a schedule to automatically download definitions.