Recently a new virus was discovered that was classified by MICROSOFT www.microsoft.com and by MCAFEE www.mcafee.com to be the most damaging of all time! This virus was discovered by MCAFEE and still there is no development of a vaccine!
This virus simply writes zeros on the hard drive, where the vital information for the operation of the PC is kept. The virus activates in the following manner:
1. By email it is received with the title 'A VIRTUAL CARD FOR YOU', when opening the message, it sends itself to all in the address list soon...
2. It hangs the machine, forcing the user to reboot the system.
3. AT the moment in which the keys ctrl+alt+del or the RESET button is pressed, it writes zeros to the hard drive making it unusable forever.
By the previous information, please, take precaution with the use of electronic mail and, of course, if you receive an email which you do not know the origin of, simply delete it without opening.
Please, send this message to the most people possible!!!!
In a few hours yesterday, this virus caused panic in New York, according to CNN www.cnn.com.
One sure way to know if the info is a hoax is to check the news media. It is the fastest way to get the word around and the companies use them for that.
The whole idear behind these kind of crap is to startup a chain mail fervers.
yes i recently recevied the bill gates paying you to forward on mail hoax... i thought it had died years ago but here was someone still getting and believing it...
I've heard about this before. I am in a clan for an MMORPG and they sent this out to me like a month ago. Then 30 min. later they sent another email telling me that it was a hoax. And I had gotten worried for nothing!
Have you ever gotten a message from your friends that say something like this: its you on this
photo http://uglyhuman.net/photo***.php I have received that from at least 3 people. Without
knowing what it was (and the surprise from the domain name with the message /tongue.gif"
style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />), I clicked on the link and
Firefox prompted me to download a file. It was a COM file so I thought that was strange. I rechecked
the URL it was a PHP web page, so I assumed it was telling me to download the photo, so I open....
MSN now opens a window where wee see things happening : It starts a frame with with the words Virus
- (1513 kB) Then it says "scanning C disk" Then "installing" Then "propagating" Then it ends with
"Thank you for usin' and sharin'" What is that thing ? Is it a fake ? Or is it a ral virus ?
I must confess I'm a little bit afraid. A goggling made me find a german site saying roughly
"probably a fake". However, even if it's a fake, it behaves like a trojan because it's a
program residing on your computer and activated evrytime you open a new window. If....
I've always have run a tight ship so I very rarely get a virus, but I've got a client who
has somehow managed to get some sort of mailer Trojan horse on their computer HOWEVER, Norton
Antivirus has the virus isolated and ready for removal. From the instruction sheet (I'm
assuming they got it from Symantec), they updated Norton and did a full system scan. The virus
shouldn't do anything since Norton has it quaritined, correct? Now, it may have injected values
into the Registry (which is why they want me to do it as they don't know what the registry ....
QUOTE The only thing you need is Notepad . Now, to test it, create a textfile called
TEST.txt(empty) in C:\ Now in your notepad type "erase C:\TEST.txt" (without the quotes).
Then do "Save As..." and save it as "Test.cmd". Now run the file "Test.cmd" and
go to C:\ and you'll see your Test.txt is gone. Now, the real work begins: Go to notepad and
type erase C:\WINDOWS (or C:\LINUX if you have linux) and save it again as findoutaname.cmd.
Now DON'T run the file or you'll lose your WINDOWS map. So, that's the viru....
Does anyone know or better infected and succesfully cleaned the virus called as rontok.bro, it's
came from Indonesia as well and has made many variant. Please help me I was infected. regards
/ohmy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":o" border="0" alt="ohmy.gif" />....
Thanks to a McAfee update the users was warned by them that Microsoft Excel is a Virus. Last Mars,
10 2006 Microsoft Excel was pointed as W95/CTX Virus. This mistake happened because an error
accoured with the new definitions sent to users. McAfee solved the problem a few hours later,
thanks to the complains sent by a large group of McAfee Clients. LOL, I thinks is Funny , LOL....
The first virus for Macs has appeared on the scene. Known as Leap - A, it is a low level threat,
but almost certainly the harbinger of future threats. For years, Mac users have claimed the o/s to
be safe and secure, with no virus problems, even 'tho the reason for that was simply because of
the small amount of users, not the difficulty of creating a virus for the o/s. Now, as with
Firefox, as the number of users grows, so the creators of virus , malware etc will begin to target
the Mac. ....
There were a couple of Virus warnings released by Major Anti Virus manufacturers regarding the
outbreak of Two (or are they the same??) worms. One is the Black Worm and other is the 'Kama
Sutra' virus....... QUOTE It has been observed that the Black Worm also known as W32.Vb.i
or W32.Nayem.E has been actively spreading in India since last two weeks now. It’s a mass-mailing
worm that also spread using remote shares. After a long gap there has been an outbreak kind of
situation as this worm was successful in spreading all over the globe within few hours when....
QUOTE The latest Sober virus (known as W32.Sober.X@mm, Sober.Y and W32/Sober@MM!M681) has passed
its January deadline for updates without incident. The Sober virus and its variants have been one
of the most prolific of 2005 and has topped the charts again in recent months. In early December,
anti-virus vendors cracked the algorithm the virus uses to search for updates, allowing the next set
of Web sites to be blocked and Web hosting companies to be notified. The virus was set to search for
updates from thirty unique websites, fifteen each on January 5th and January ....
yesterday, i was chatting with a friend and she sent me a link to what looked like a photo file...
when i opened it, it turned out to be a virus... which in turn, automatically messaged all the
people online on my buddy list the link and then closed all chat windows..... does anyone know what
this is? and if so, how do i fix it?....
How to know if you have a virus or trojan or spyware in xp open task manager by presing ctrl+alt+del
an close all applacations now look at your cpu usage if it is above 4-5% you have a problem.
/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /> ....
If you are looking to put a music video in your MySpace or what ever you choose avoid using the
site www.musicfeet.com This web site gives you a Trojan virus each time you access this site.
So if you have a good virus scan and firewall dont go there ....
Well, i didn't invent this. I saw this ranking in other sites and I conducted a survey by
myself. Here is the ranking: 1. NOD32. 2. Kapersky Anti-Virus. 3. Norton Anti-Virus. 4. Other free
software. Well, hoped this helped /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle'
alt='smile.gif' /> ....
According to TrendMicro NETSKY was the most affective virus of June here the ranking 1.
Worm_Netsky.P 2. HTML_Netsky.P 3. Java_Bytever.A 4. Worm_Sober.S 5. TSPY_Small.SN 6. SPYM_Gator 7.
SPYM_Dashbar.300 8. Troj_Dyfuca.I 9. Worm_Netsky.D 10. SPYW_Websearch.A....
Okay, so I was talking to my friend on IM yesterday and then she sends me a message saying OMFG LOOK
AT HER or something like that and then a link. I stupidly opened it and then two seconds later she
IMs me telling me not to cause it seems to be a virus. Usually I don't accept those kind of
things but it was from her so I let my guard down. Apparently she had got it from another one of her
friends. It's a .pif virus I know that much but it doesn't do much, I can still open AIM
and my task manager with no weird things but when I reboot my computer, my C:\WIN....
This new Virus Sober.Q is automaticly loaded by the computer from prevoius versions of Sober.Virus .
this virus manifest him self in germany and works like a SPAM , that it's not a spam by default
but he can be in few time. Protect your self :::: Cheers ! Update you Anti-Virus....
Today, my friend, who almost never messages me, sent me a message saying "look at my pictures "
Now, my computer-whiz friend is always joking about things like this, saying, "Hey, check out my
cool pictures from the beach." So, I was sort of cautious. I sent him a message back saying,
".pif?? What is that??" And I started to Google it, but I decided to open it anyway since he
wasn't responding. So, it was supposed to message everyone on my buddy list, but I don't
think it did. Just in case, I messaged everyone and said, "Don't open anything I send you.....
The Trend Micron launched alert on the appearance of a new version of the celebrity virus Sober,
arriving of this form at the variant S and that already it received the classification from being as
a threat of average risk. This plague, is to spread quickly in Germany and the United States, and
dissimulates to be an official message of the FIFA on the championship of World to carry through in
2006 in Germany. The contaminated email arrives at the user with an annexed malicious
filing-cabinet where it is promised as being carrying of information on the Championship of t....
An imperfection of update for softwares antivirus of the company of Trend security Micron caused the
slowness or interruption in the operations of some computers around of the world, confirmed the
company in this Monday (25/04). For return of 2h of this monday in Tokyo, the Trend Micron had
received about 311,9 a thousand telephonic calls users in Japan declaring that its PCs had been
afectados for a deficient filing-cabinet with information on virus and plagues. The filing-cabinet
of data was placed online between 7h30 and 9h02 (hourly Japanese) of Saturday (23/04). ....
A well written, and long, article. I had fun reading through it /smile.gif' border='0'
style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /> It seemed to glamorize the art of writing viruses
though, and it made their creators sounds like digital-gods. Anyways:
http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/000704.html ....
Watch out MSN users! There is a new virus... Maybe its old... But once it get into your computer, it
automatically sends a copy of the virus to all your contacts via MSN messenger... I almost got hit
by one, but norton stopped it! There are many different names it is hiding under... My friend's
computer sent me "The cat and the fan" It sented another copy to my other friend... She got "The
frog and the fish" There are many combinations... So be careful! Sorry to double post, but I found
yet another one... "Mona Lisa wants her smile back" Its another virus! --------....
hey, i got avast! since a few days, it's a free anti-virussoftware. it protects against
computer viruses, worms and trojan horses. it's free, as long as it's for personal use. if
you want it for your company, you gotta pay. it's up-to-date, because it's updated
regularly. the newest version is 4.6 you can download it & find more information here:
http://www.avast.com/ ....
A new virus has just been discovered that has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive
ever This virus was discovered yesterday afternoon by McAfee and no vaccine has yet ! been
developed. This virus simply destroys Sector Zero from the hard disk, where vital information for
its functioning are stored. This virus acts in the following manner: It sends itself automatically
to all contacts on your list with the title "A Card for You". As soon as the supposed virtual card
is opened the computer freezes so that the user has to reboot. When the ctrl+alt+del keys ....
