Urgent Bulletin: Virus "blackworm" D-day

xboxrulz

Jan 31 2006, 09:45 PM

A couple of viruses are dated to launch this Friday, destroying any documents in its path.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1915070,00.asp

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Sarah81

Feb 1 2006, 02:42 AM

Oh, fun. Open attached Kama Sutra photos and get a computer virus that wipes out your vital documents. What with those delightfully wicked computer geniuses think of next?

Seriously though ... from talking to other people (i.e. helping them fix their 'puter probs) I've learned that a big part of the issue is when people set their e-mail clients to automatically open/view attachments. Don't do that! Change the settings! That'll prevent a big portion of the e-mail virus problem.

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marretas

Feb 1 2006, 09:52 AM

thks xbox, i alreday posted a similar thread in "Security and Exploits" Section, in fact this virus delete known files such as *.mdb, *.doc, *.xls,*.pps & *.ppt, and other kind of this files. In summa he can delet 13 type of diffrente files, and the "best" (U know what i mean ) is, if he isn't deleted from the system this little f*cK** its programmed to every 3rd day of each month reactivated again and start working again. This is bad because guys with School works , companies databases that are stored in computers for a long time and probably only is used on the end of the year will never know what happened to those files.
To Prevent this Virus Just update your antivirus before 3rd Febuary Cheers m8.

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Kushika

Feb 3 2006, 07:48 PM

QUOTE(marretas @ Feb 1 2006, 10:52 AM)

thks xbox, i alreday posted a similar thread in "Security and Exploits" Section, in fact this virus delete known files such as *.mdb, *.doc, *.xls,*.pps & *.ppt, and other kind of this files. In summa he can delet 13 type of diffrente files, and the "best" (U know what i mean ) is, if he isn't deleted from the system this little f*cK** its programmed to every 3rd day of each month reactivated again and start working again. This is bad because guys with School works , companies databases that are stored in computers for a long time and probably only is used on the end of the year will never know what happened to those files.
To Prevent this Virus Just update your antivirus before 3rd Febuary Cheers m8.

Personally I don't think MS Outlook is a good e-mail client becuaes of all the exploits it has. I guess people just need to learn t backup files more regularly... if fact, I could do with a few backups...

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