05-03-2004, 07:16 PM | #11 | |
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I suggest you guys read this one first based on CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/interne...orm/index.html Quote:
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05-03-2004, 08:02 PM | #12 |
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Alot of the new viruses are spreading in this fashion. The don't rely on emails any more.
People out there are getting smarter and exploiting the holes in the Windows Operating System. Thats why I also linked the Windows update site so everyone can get the latest security patches from Microsoft to protect them selves. Best defence against new worms such as these is a combination of a firewall (software or hardware) and antivirus. Now days its becomming almost essential to have a firewall of some descrption. Hope it helped! Cheers T-D-C [ 05-03-2004, 09:15 PM: Message edited by: T-D-C ]
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05-04-2004, 12:41 AM | #14 |
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johnny meant well. he didnt know there is a new variation of the virus. Some sasser virus (among a-d) is based on email. but there is one going thru based on ip address. which is a new warning.
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Yeah Johnny meant well, and not many people are aware of the new emerging virus technologies that are out there. Go back 3-5 years and the only way you were getting a virus is from a floppy disk. Now days viruses almost ignore floppys so they are pretty safe.
Threads like this are just to make everyone aware and if someone gets something wrong lets not jump all over them. Just say they had the wrong info and point them towards the correct info.
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I was infected by Sasser, my school and a few other schools in my city are infected, and many of my friends computers
I have since formatted, and reinstalled zone alarm, but wow this is really annoing. (i was going to format anyway, this just gave me a good reason to do it) I don't blame microsoft, but i am getting angry with these attacks Is shutdown the only remote operation these worms can do? why didn't the writer make it "better" or more destructive if they wanted to be really annoing Also, ISPs are beginning to get tied up with these viruses, my connection was only 48k and now has dropped to 28k, do you think this virus will be eliminated completly? i mean msblast is still out there even now. also thanks for the information T-D-C [ 05-05-2004, 09:56 AM: Message edited by: Intrepid ] |
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I found this guys. It's a little program from MacAfee, called Stinger. It checks your harddrive for 41 known virusses, including the new Sasser (what a stupid name btw) virus, and automatically deletes it from your system. It also removes any trojans it happens to run into. Check it out, it's worth it.
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Why do Hackers still insist on making these worms in times like these?
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