[pchelpers] Re: computer viruses and worms

Thanks for reminding us that we have more problems today than we had
yesterday. Your comments on the address book trick are sensible. In
effect then all it does is tell you there is a problem (after the horse
has bolted).

Tonia wrote:
> 
> Hi Jackie
> 
> That tip was published in Lockergnome but later Chris
> Pirillo, the author apologized for giving a tip that
> doesn't work! Some gnomie sent the information that
> this won't work.
> 
> Think about it. If one of the addresses in your email
> list is not correct, that's the only one that bounced
> back and not the others. I'd that happen to me several
> times! <g>
> 
> One just need to be careful about attachments. The
> Nimda worm doesn't even need an attachment to get to
> work. Just using the preview pane is enough to get it
> to worm itself into your registry and what else!
> 
> I'd got the SirCamA virus infecting my computer at
> work without ever opening up a questionable
> attachment. It spread via our mail server (Exchange
> 5.5) As we receive our email via our regional office
> mail server, I guess some dummy must have opened up
> that can of worm and thus spread it all over our
> network. Our own mail server, webserver and testing
> server and CDWriter server were all infected. Although
> it's an old worm yet someone ignorant about viruses
> and worms will just get you all into trouble.
> 
> I managed to clean up a couple of servers using
> Norton's cleaning tool. But my own workstation had to
> be reformatted as a repair of the OS didn't work. All
> my .exe file were dead as the dodo! It happened only
> after I rebooted. Didn't use to turn off my
> workstation as it's running Win2k server.
> 
> Just to let you guys know no matter how careful you
> are, if you're connected to the network, make sure
> you've got your anti-virus up to date. By the way, I
> didn't have any anti-virus installed on the Win2K
> partition, only my Win98 partition! *sigh*! Goes to
> show a careless move will give you lots of headache
> and time wasted not to mention data loss!
> 
> Hope all your PCs are healthy and not wormy! Lots more
> are discovered since Nimda. Check out sarc.com site.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tonia
> 

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