Virus

#1

Quote:NOTE: The worm de-activates on September 10, 2003. The last day on which the worm will spread is September 9, 2003.

Only a month to go ;)

#2 Get Spamassasin

#3 Ward,

It's not me :) I run VirusASAP and update daily. I also checked the virus info on the Mcafee site and I am up to snuff (latest .dat and search engine)

-Ron

#4 Go to the McAfee site and download Stinger.exe.

Check this link for info about that virus:

hq.mcafeeasap.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=100561

#5 @Sabrecyd : Already scanned... my system is not infected. I'm just being bombed with emails from someone who is infected. By now I received over 150 (and we're only like a couple of hours later). The reason I can't filter them out is becuase i'm using a webmail app to read my mail (I'm not at home at the moment you see)...
@Ron: thanks for checking ;)

#6 I have been getting the emails as well. Just not as many about 5 a day.

#7 The virus is actually Outlook, remove that ( and Internet Exploder ) and you never have to worry about email viruses again. I have never had an email virus with Eudora or Mozilla ;)

#8 @Jarrod,

Unfortunatly some of us are not able to use Eudora or Mozilla due to our work ties with Exchange. I would love to use either, but seeing that work uses exchange (no pop/imap) I am forced to use MS Outlook.

Their is also a strict software policy in affect , which does not allow me to install such 3rd party software.

In short, I am screwed ;)

-Ron

#9 I've never had an email virus, and i run outlook. :)

#10 Jarrod... not if someone else who is using outlook is infected and its sending you emails every minute. Stopping them on the base of the email adress doesn't work.... its always another one... and stopping them on the base of the title is hard too.
Oh, and I just received another 50... damn the guy that got himself infected (who the f**k opens a .pif, .scr,...???)

#11 I've gotten 600 since yesterday.

Serve me right for writing FAQs for games.

If someone can't figure out how to complete Barbie Vacation Adventure, I highly doubt they're going to know how to update their DATs.

#12 LoL 600? My situation isn't that bad then ;)

I hope not too many frustrated destructive lousy programmers get the idea of mass mailing virusses in their head. Most of them say "If people are stupid enough not to protect themselves against our simple virusses, well then its their own fault" What they don't think about is all the other people they're screwing...

#13 People that actually have time to create a virus really need to get laid.

#14 I am getting a ton of those emails too. I have the old fashioned virus tool. The delete key.

What a pain.

I wish I had an email address that NO ONE knew about. Life would be easy then.

#15 "Billy Gates, stop making money and fix your software." (rolls eyes in disgust) I saw in a news report that this was encoded into the worm.

Are we all in agreement that hackers are different from programmers? Seriously, if you have a life and you program, fine. That's your job. You like doing it and it's great. If you want to slow down millions of computers all over the world because you don't like someone else's business dealings, do you not need your butt kicked?

#16 I think the butt kicking is in order. There's nothing wrong with programming for a job or hobby or just playing games. That doesn't screw over people for no reason. It is hard to feel bad for Microsoft tho.

#17 Ward, just send everyone you know a copy of that new worm that fixes this one. ;-)

-Eric

#18 Ben, But Blaster has hit at most maybe a million computers. With an exploit that has had a patch for a month now. and there is no reason a single Windows XP machine should ever have been touched by it. (Because by default AUTO-UPDATE is ON!)
And even a Win2k user has the auto-update feature that when installed is also ON!
So the patch should have been installed a month ago and it shouldn't have infected a single computer.

A Hacker is a programmer.
And the new worm going around that fixes blaster wont effect his emails.
Because Blaster is NOT an email worm.
There has been recent outbreak of old email worms again.

Damn people not getting AV software

#19 If you use a little ocmmon sense in dealing with emails, you will never get viruses.

I havent used AV software in 5 years and have yet to get hit by a virus.

#20 The last and only time this comp was hit by a virus was when someone on the-scorpions.com's forums sent it to us, and my mama was ill enough to open it. The dude was bored... I guess. We had Windows ME at the time, so... use your imagination.