Best free anti-virus. Go and download "stinger" from computer associates inc. CA make McAfee anti-virus, but stinger is their emergency sw. Someone I know bought a new Sony Vaio laptop and it was infected with several viruses, and a couple of interesting trojans too. Stinger shifted the lot! Or do like I do, and don't use windozes. Get a copy of RedHat Linux 9.0 or fedora. Virus free operating system! Dave.
You can download a very competent and free Anti Virus Guard from http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php Its served me well anyway...
It's Network Associates that make McAfee. Not Computer Associates, who have their own Anti Virus Software - e-Trust. Cheers.
Here's a new one... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3923705.stm I've also seen the same posts in an newsgroup this morning but about the claimed suicide of Arnold Schwarz...howeveryaspellit
Virus alert Heads up all. Received from Trend Micro today. Dear Trend Micro customer, As of July 26, 2004 8:31 AM (GMT -7:00 Daylight Savings Time), TrendLabs has declared a Medium Risk Virus Alert to control the spread of WORM_MYDOOM.M. TrendLabs has received several infection reports indicating that this malware is spreading in Singapore, Germany and the US. This worm spreads via email through SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). The details of the email it sends are as follows: Subject: (any of the following) . The original message was included as attachment The/Your m/Message could not be delivered . hello . hi error . status . test . report . delivery failed . Message could not be delivered . Mail System Error - Returned Mail . Delivery reports about your e-mail . Returned mail: see transcript for details . Returned mail: Data format error Attachment: (any of the following) . %s.zip . %s.com . %s.scr . %s.exe . %s.pif . %s.bat TrendLabs will be releasing the following EPS deliverables: TMCM Outbreak Prevention Policy - 122 (released) Official Pattern Release - 1.945.00 (ETA: 30 mins) Damage Cleanup Template - 384 (ETA: 2 hours) Network VirusWall (NVW) Pattern 134 - (ETA: 3 hours) Vulnerability Assessment (MS04-014) - Already Supported For more information on WORM_MYDOOM.M, you can visit our Web site at: http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_MYDOOM.M David
nice one boss in case anyone is wondering, La Mancha's post above was originally a thread in General Discussion which the boss moved here
Question how many people go to the general forum and how many come here? Unless you are looking for something computer related i bet the first place is one of the general or MA specific forums. David
In that case let's scrap all the forum areas and just have one big General Forum Virus posts would be considered Off Topic in General Discussion as it's for General Discussion of Martial Arts!
New Virus I just caught and had to get stinger to kill it. It's the Bagel 32 v virus. It's not particularly nasty or anything, but it may get you fired. It hacks into your email system and sends itself to all your contacts. In addition it writes a large number of files (about 270 files I think) and calls them "xxx hardcore porn", or "cool cool anal hentai", or something equally incriminating. The files just sit on your hard drive and slow your computer down a little bit. Nasty little bugger ...
Ok Yoda so it would be off topic, the point is to get it to as many people as possible and I personally dont think that most people who come here go to the computing forum first. The answer? I dont know but as you are "the boss" so be it. Any ideas on how to bring it to the forumites attention if it is posted in computing forum? It would seem that it would be best if I for one stopped posting virus warnings as I get them. David
erm, the New Posts function? if it's on there and is a Sticky, there's a good possibility that people will take notice
No - please continue - just post them in their allocated area - the sticky post in the Computer forum.
Very true and there is also the possibility that as its a sticky they might think they have read it before and so not read it again. As I said I dont know the answer so I will just stop posting warnings. David
It does show up as being an updated Thread in "New Posts" and "Today's Posts" when somebody posts something new in it.
