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["William B. Lurie" <billurie@xxxxxxxx>]

And even (ugh!!!!) Norton/Symantec offer the free scan....

          Bill Lurie

Spider wrote:

> 
>I don't know what all the different companies call these viruses anymore, I
>wish someone would force a standard on them.  From what I can find, this one
>is a variant of the Netsky virus.  In any case it is a spoofing type of
>virus.  Any notifications you get that you are the one infected are probably
>coming from someone else.  If you are doing at least weekly scans of your
>system and keeping your virus definition files current you should just
>delete them.  It also does not hurt to do an occassional scan from a web
>based virus scan like Trend, McAfee, Panda and others offer.
>
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>Spider
>http://web.tampabay.rr.com/spider1
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>http://spider1.blogspot.com/
>
>http://erablog.net/blogs/Spider1/
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>
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>worm.somefool.gen-1 is a variant of mydoom. I just ran a freeware McAfee
>checker called Stinger that lists several variants of mydoom, although not
>the above by specific name, and it found nothing.
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