Author: Aaron Tay
Date: 04:39:28 09/20/03
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On September 19, 2003 at 16:45:51, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >On September 19, 2003 at 16:24:40, Mike Byrne wrote: > >> [...] As suddenly I as getting them - they >>stopped. > >They didn't stop here yet. > >>I think ..well at least the past hour they have stopped. This virus >>is really nasty - does no require user intervention or it poses as MS update >>and if you click no to the update - it installs silently. > >I think, when you don't use any funky mailer (like OE), none of those email >worms/virusses is particalary nasty. You always will need user intervention. >Often more than once (save the attachement, and also run it). I have saved the >attachements (out of curiosity) to look at them, at the strings, that are >inside, etc. It does also require, to disable the anti-Virus program. But >anybody sane (besides perhaps people who work for McAffee, etc.) would run such >an attachement. Amen. And if you insist on using anything by MS, be sure to download the latest patches from the windows update site. The bug exploited by W32/Swen@MM is a old one. >Regards, >Dieter
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