Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 15:12:40 08/12/03
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First of all a clarification, I did not say that my machine got infected when playing on playchess.com (read again my message). For the record I am a long time user of playchess.com and can say only good words about it. Now to the warning: If you have up-to-date anti-virus definitions, and never open an unknown binary file (exactly like me), you are still vulnerable (alas, I learned it too late)! This was the first time a machine of mine got infected with virus, because this is the first known widespread virus which gets into your machine _without_ your intervention! see http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html I don't remember any such grave security problem in the history of Windows... So, I *strongly* recommend all Windows users to download the latest Windows patch from http://www.windowsupdate.com/
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