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| Thread ID: 13320 | 2001-11-30 12:01:00 | Virus ~ worm ~ computer slow to shut down | Guest (0) | Press F1 |
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| 26102 | 2001-11-30 12:01:00 | Until about a week ago I used to before going to work, check my Email, shut down Outlook express, shut down computer everything went normal. But for the last week when I went to shutdown the computer, a warning message would come up saying something like 'waiting for program to end task' on Windoze 98SE So I updated my free AVG anti-virus program that gave erevything a free bill of heath, Well less than a week now I have just download the newest update and it found a 'I-Worm/BadTrans' virus in the system. I am very careful, with attachments, I have no idea how this happened apart from the fact this Virus must of sneaked in Via a HTML Email, as I got some HTML Emails the other day with no text in the body & a attachment given as file size of 0 bytes, On Wednesday night I found in the C:\WINDOWS\TEMP folder some 'youarefat*.mp3.scr' files (note the double extension) which I deleted, So guess what? I have decided to stop buying biscuits and cakes |
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| 26103 | 2001-11-30 12:31:00 | RATS !!! I forgot to say the free AVG Antivirus program you can get it from, http://www.grisoft.com date 24/11/2001 |
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| 26104 | 2001-11-30 12:38:00 | You've got the latest outlook worm going around (badtrans). It uses a security hole in OE to run automatically. The Register has an article (www.theregister.co.uk) with some links that should help, especially the messagelabs one. I hope you havn't been entering any passwords / creditcard numbers recently. If you going to use OE you will have to check for patchs on windows update regularly. The security hole badtrans uses has had a patch since march. |
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| 26105 | 2001-11-30 20:27:00 | Thanks BM I can not aford to pay off credit card, and I make my own lunch. |
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