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Subject: Re: serious issues with playchess.com server...

Author: Brian Thomas

Date: 08:51:43 08/12/03

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On August 12, 2003 at 01:50:28, C McClain Morris, Jr. wrote:


>I noticed at antivirus.com that the virus about 9 hours old according to
>statistics and has infected 548 comps world wide at the time of this writing.
>I am convinced that I got this virus while playing on playchess as i watched a
>non-response to my first move by kissos-Shredder 7.04 for 2 minutes in a 3
>minute blitz + 2 game, then his comp finally made a move. I (Fritz 7) won that
>game by the way. At the completion of this game the DOS attack had already been
>run. Well, back to firewalling and I've now put Pc-cillin back on my comp.
>
>Thanks for the info Brian.

Yep, it seems quite new.  One thing though -- you may have gotten the virus
while on Playchess, but not *because* of Playchess.  I'd like to try out if a
firewall on Playchess protects from the worm.



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