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Larry_OHF · 09-18-2001, 09:22 PM

Someone malisciously planted a virus into our company and Wake Forest this morning.
Some of you saw me on here this morning at work, posting.
About 9:30am, I get a screen that asks me to open a file from current location or save to disk. I thought it was something that Ziroc had new for the forum, so I said run from location (saftey precaution I choose to play)...An error came on, saying that explorer could not read file #0000, etc...and terminated without downloading. About 10 minutes after that, we had help desk techs running around asking us all to shut down our PCs.
The virus did not come in an e-mail, it came straight from our home page, attached to the web browser. Anyone that logged on to the net this morning was a possible infection. I did not know whether or not any of you escaped this browser virus, since I was online with some of you...Anyway, my PC is still down because the Virus experts are still working on identifying it...

Just remember...If the screen comes up and asks you to download something from some unknown source, don't open it.

I suspect (as do our executives), that this was done to attack our company, and Wake Forest in particular..

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Father of the wicked but cute child known as MaryBeth

Padre de una niña bien traviosa pero guapa
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Aisukuríimu ga tabetái desu.

09-18-2001, 09:22 PM	#1
Larry_OHF Ironworks Moderator Join Date: March 1, 2001 Location: Midlands, South Carolina Age: 49 Posts: 14,759	Someone malisciously planted a virus into our company and Wake Forest this morning. Some of you saw me on here this morning at work, posting. About 9:30am, I get a screen that asks me to open a file from current location or save to disk. I thought it was something that Ziroc had new for the forum, so I said run from location (saftey precaution I choose to play)...An error came on, saying that explorer could not read file #0000, etc...and terminated without downloading. About 10 minutes after that, we had help desk techs running around asking us all to shut down our PCs. The virus did not come in an e-mail, it came straight from our home page, attached to the web browser. Anyone that logged on to the net this morning was a possible infection. I did not know whether or not any of you escaped this browser virus, since I was online with some of you...Anyway, my PC is still down because the Virus experts are still working on identifying it... Just remember...If the screen comes up and asks you to download something from some unknown source, don't open it. I suspect (as do our executives), that this was done to attack our company, and Wake Forest in particular.. ------------------ Father of the wicked but cute child known as MaryBeth Padre de una niña bien traviosa pero guapa --------------------- Aisukuríimu ga tabetái desu.