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AW1Steve -> RE: THE THREAD!!! (9/10/2010 4:01:42 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
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ORIGINAL: sprior
Watch out for a new virus!
Techie stuff:
Win32/Visal.B is a new worm that is currently propagating using mass emailing, and copying itself to local drives and network shares. Please note: the worm does not leverage a vulnerability in a specific product, but rather, uses a social engineering technique called URL obfuscation to trick a user to launch a malicious SCR file.
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A fast-moving email worm that began spreading on Thursday has been able to affect hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide, anti-virus provider Symantec warned.
The email arrives with the subject “Here you have.” An executable screensaver that's disguised as a PDF document then tries to send the same message to everyone listed in the recipient's address book. The .scr file is a variation of the W32.Imsolk.A@mm worm Symantec discovered last month.
In addition to spreading through email, it can propagate through mapped drives, autorun and instant messenger. It also has the ability to disable various security programs.
Who cares. I have a Mac. [8|][:D]
Yeah. You have a computer that no one even bothers to screw with! [X(][:D]
I would bet that many of these viruses would not work on a Commadore 64 either, Steve. [;)]
Absolutely true. The fact that I'm constantly fighting them on 1year old, then top of the line Dell, tells me I made the right choice. But then again, no one tries to steal a Yugo either. Does Log boy drive a Yugo? [&:] He might. He does live in the strangest city in North America. [:D]
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