The latest in annoying viruses...

Post by **darkvader** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 8:54 pm

It seems that there's an exciting new virus out as of today.

It's an email attachment trojan, I've gotten 3 copies of it already today. For me, it's just annoying, but for those of you unlucky enough to not be using a Macintosh or Linux machine, it could be a real problem.

For more information, see this page:

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/d ... .a@mm.html

Sir Diddimus · Post by **Sir Diddimus** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 8:55 pm

Yeah, I've received three copies at work, but I know better than opening unknown e-mail.

Post by **darkvader** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 9:45 pm

Yeah, and I've got a Mac, so I opened it just because I can. It's quite harmless for me.

It's so obviously a virus, though. I can't imagine a valid reason for sending a file that's a .txt.pif as the only thing in a zip archive.

SpamAssassin even flagged the email as spam for me.

Balance · Post by **Balance** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 10:19 pm

vader-i take your warnings about viruses seriously,heh.
(kidding)

Hardcoregirl · Post by **Hardcoregirl** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 10:31 pm

Next time I come over to crochet with Thrall, you can play with my laptop. I think some virus scan thing said I had some troj_netbus thing or something or other...but someone told me not to worry about it.

I'm just an average PC user...*sniffle*

Sir Diddimus · Post by **Sir Diddimus** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 9:00 am

Buttercup wrote:Next time I come over to crochet with Thrall, you can play with my laptop. I think some virus scan thing said I had some troj_netbus thing or something or other...but someone told me not to worry about it.

I'm just an average PC user...*sniffle*

Being a UT student, did you know you have access to anti-virus software? It's part of your tecnology fee. Any UT student or employee can download and install it on any of their machines. Unfortunately, that ass of a president ruined it for everyone. UT now has to accept bids in order to purchase the licenses, but at least it's still a corporate edition of McAfee. It's only a $300 piece of software. You will get a licensed copy which is good for one year of updates. Luckily, my year hasn't ran out at home and I still have Norton, but McAfee is better than nothing.

Hardcoregirl · Post by **Hardcoregirl** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 1:51 pm

I was not aware of that SirD. Thank you much.

I bet I pay for all sorts of snazzying things and don't even know about it.

Where do I download it from?

Sir Diddimus · Post by **Sir Diddimus** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 5:37 pm

http://antivirus.utk.edu

You'll need to know your netid and password. You can do a person search on utk.edu to find your netid.