vidiware Posted August 31, 2002 Posted August 31, 2002 Virus have existed from the first day of the computers life. Boot viruses and everyting. But now have a new generation viruses started to attack us! Bootsector viruses are not a big problem anymore beacuse we dont use as much floppies, ppl dont bother making new ones so all scanners can get em and they need floppies or cds and piracy was more common in the peroid before the cd! (My opinion is that the years when the cds was big so u needed 50-60 disks for one piracy game was the years with least piracy)!Im talking about the W32 series of internet/mailing worms. Most of them are harmless but is annoying and taking memory/resources...The problem is:Your Computer: -> My Comp -> My friends computersInfected Infected by You Infected by meWhat im trying to say is:Lets Kill W32...And kill em fast. We all hate virus!!!Please get a virus program and remove virus from you hdd. If all do that, we can be free! YAY!Free dos based scanner (for personal use):www.f-prot.comVirus info database:www.mcafee.comIm saying again lets remove virus from everything! and KILL em!
IxianMace Posted August 31, 2002 Posted August 31, 2002 I've got PC Cillin 2000 but I haven't installed it because I don't want to get into all the complicated jargon of how it interferes with games and internet connections etc, etc. I also have to update the virus pattern for the program, which can be real pain. I don't share many files with people at all, so unless a file that has already been infected gets into my computer from the net, I'm virus free (hopefully). :)
vidiware Posted August 31, 2002 Author Posted August 31, 2002 The big problem is thatr W32 can infect you by a reciving a mail
DukeLeto Posted August 31, 2002 Posted August 31, 2002 Hmm...I have Nortan 2002...It doesn't seem to cause any problems, and it was rated #1 by PC World magazine.
nemafakei Posted August 31, 2002 Posted August 31, 2002 Adrian Messecar has a virus, I believe - I just received two emails from him which were obviously not of his own doing - one with a goldfish.txt.bat file.
DukeLeto Posted August 31, 2002 Posted August 31, 2002 Yeah, I got those too...strange...Delete them immediately. (Just a warning: Norton *thankfully* detected a virus as the messages were downloading and canceled the Send/Recieve.)
Gobalopper Posted August 31, 2002 Posted August 31, 2002 Actually there is a virus out now that sends mail from people who don't have the virus. I don't know how it works but I think it sends email to people in that persons addressbook but the from field is a different person then who it really is.
jacobdouds Posted August 31, 2002 Posted August 31, 2002 I got two emails from adrian about a screensaver thingy, but im hotmail based, so it was really quite laughable.Most current AV programs take care of W32 and Klez virus's well enough right now though, and im sitting here without an anti virus cause windows crashed and norton won't reinstall right...
Desert_Eagle25 Posted August 31, 2002 Posted August 31, 2002 same here, i got 2 emails from adrian messcar or something like that wich had attatchments about some screensaver..i was lmao and deleted it.
vidiware Posted September 1, 2002 Author Posted September 1, 2002 i have warned adrian.. He is infected by W32/Yaha.G@mm or something...And i got my self infected by W32/Klez.H@mmI hate emwhat about a anti virus campaign? let all scan viruses and delete e,m to get the 1 of 5 comps on world is infected to 1 of 6 or 7
nemafakei Posted September 1, 2002 Posted September 1, 2002 Not very feasible... Whwew is that old w32 badtrans thread?http://www.dune2k.com/forum/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=533;start=0/Here it is.
vidiware Posted September 2, 2002 Author Posted September 2, 2002 Okay maybe this not is nessecary but BErofe i close!!!Kill W32 and dont let your computer ever be infected by w32
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