Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:35:07 08/14/03
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On August 13, 2003 at 02:50:31, Bo Persson wrote: >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 I watch that weekly. However there are no virus problems that are addressed by those. Most are fixes for issues where a user is doing something he should not, not fixes for someone "outside" trying to get in by sending a virus/worm/trojan/etc... about 1/3 of those prevent various forms of a DOS attack from clamping the machine down in the mud. :) > >> >> >>>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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