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Whoodoo
Tue 27th January 2004, 08:39
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32mydooma.html
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=mydoom
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.novarg.a@mm.html

Please all read, this ones gonna get out of control quickly.

Oh, and please get a firewall asap if you dont have one!

Free to try one:

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp?lid=pdb_za1

Caledan
Tue 27th January 2004, 09:23
I'm sorry but you have to be extremely naive or stupid to even consider the possibility of contemplating the remote chance that one day you might accidently think about opening any email attachment without virus scanning it. Especially .scr which is probably the most common email virus attachment.

The harvesting of the from address from your personal address book (most email viruses now look at .txt .htm .html and .pab to get email addys from your computer so it looks like its a 'trusted' email addy) is a pain in the arse.

Whoodoo
Wed 28th January 2004, 09:08
You wouldnt beleive the amount of people who are not aware of these things, working for the NHS is a total nightmare, as Doctors dont tend to be the most sensible people in reality.

And they operate on ppl like us daily.....scarey.

Ransom
Wed 28th January 2004, 13:41
least doctors dont use computers for surgery as such :)



keepin the faith alive in teh nhs :)