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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