Author: Bo Persson
Date: 23:50:31 08/12/03
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On August 12, 2003 at 18:53:10, Christophe Theron wrote: >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. Yes, I guess the SQL worm coused more damage than this. > >Do not underestimate the history of Windows... :) > > > > Christophe (running Red Hat Linux, fine, thank you) Hope you have checked this page :-) https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh9-errata-security.html > > >>So, I *strongly* recommend all Windows users to download the latest Windows >>patch from http://www.windowsupdate.com/ Always! Bo Persson bop2@telia.com
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