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Implementing virus checking

Now try some activities relating to implementing anti-virus software.

Go to the Lycos web-mail site at http://secure.mail.lycos.co.uk and find out which type of virus protection is implemented.



In order to show clients how to check that the virus checking is turned on in their web-based e-mail service, you must be familiar with this facility in the commonly used services.

Log on to each of the new e-mail accounts you created in the first exercise and make sure that automatic virus checking is turned on, as far as permitted by the e-mail service provider.



Let's look now at some other sources of anti-virus software ...