Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 15:53:10 08/12/03
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On August 12, 2003 at 18:12:40, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>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...
No, actually it has already happened.
Do not underestimate the history of Windows... :)
Christophe (running Red Hat Linux, fine, thank you)
>So, I *strongly* recommend all Windows users to download the latest Windows
>patch from http://www.windowsupdate.com/
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