Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 03:03:24 08/14/03
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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:
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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.
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>>Now to the warning:
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>>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!
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>>http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html
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>>I don't remember any such grave security problem in the history of Windows...
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>No, actually it has already happened.
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>Do not underestimate the history of Windows... :)
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> Christophe (running Red Hat Linux, fine, thank you)
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>>So, I *strongly* recommend all Windows users to download the latest Windows
>>patch from http://www.windowsupdate.com/
I am still working with Win98SE and have therefore no problem. Furthermore
I rarely use IE 6.0 but instead Opera 7.1 and for my mails I do almost
never touch Outlook, but GeMail 2000.
Kurt
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