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Martin
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Joined: 05 May 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 28 2004 14:25    
Virus alert (Novarg/MyDoom)
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A major virus is out there, read more at.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.novarg.a@mm.html

W32.Novarg.A@mm is a mass-mailing worm that arrives as an attachment with the file extension .bat, .cmd, .exe, .pif, .scr, or .zip.

Many of the virusinfectred mail often contains an error message like this:

The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has been sent as a binary attachment

Thought you might like to know... Wink Martin
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Yannick
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Joined: 16 Apr 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 28 2004 14:59    
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This virus is a pain. Got dozens of them per hour. Sad

Yannick
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Inge
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Joined: 04 May 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 28 2004 15:01    
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Already received it on three email addresses. It indeed goes quite fast Wink Eventhough, it doesn't become active until you open the attachment, and I guess most people are aware of the fact that you shouldn't open attachments but should save and scan them first.

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Elijah
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 28 2004 19:14    
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who has the time on their hands to write viruses... i dont understand the logic here... why do you have to try and destroy things? donno what im saying?


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Sonitus
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 28 2004 19:18    
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PimpJuse wrote:
who has the time on their hands to write viruses... i dont understand the logic here... why do you have to try and destroy things? donno what im saying?


If no one wrote viruses, the anti-virus companies would be put out of business. I think they write the viruses themselves, just to sell their products. Sounds logic to me Very Happy


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Elijah
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 28 2004 21:09    
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MyztiQue wrote:
PimpJuse wrote:
who has the time on their hands to write viruses... i dont understand the logic here... why do you have to try and destroy things? donno what im saying?


If no one wrote viruses, the anti-virus companies would be put out of business. I think they write the viruses themselves, just to sell their products. Sounds logic to me Very Happy


yah i was actually about to write that.. and its true just because they would have nothing else to waste their untalented programming skils on Evil or Very Mad


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