Hey has anyone on here got that new mydoom virus??? Cuz I got it, and just after my norton anti virus subscription ran out.
So I'm pretty annoyed with it.

Cheers
damo

Join the club mate I also have it I had uptodat virus protectioin well so i thought Im goign to upgrade to nortons. Makes me wonder what the lowlifes that make viruses ect do for fun. Stuffed up my day
Andrew

Quote:Yes, that's one of the top reasons why they are made: just for fun.

One thing that will help prevent getting it is: Never open an "attachment" that's in your email -- ESPECIALLY if it appears to be from a friend. I've been bombarded recently by email that appears to be coming from AU and PT (portugal), but I don't open it since I wasn't expecting it (and since they all look similar).

If the attachment is a .jpg file and you are expecting it, i.e. you just asked someone to mail you pics of the ute for sale, that's fairly safe. JPGs don't spread viruses -- programs do (.exe, .bat, .vbs, .com, and a lot more).

Thats what I dont understand Im always really carefull. Most the time I just delete it along with the 500 spam emails Im getting
Andrew

I don't have those problems running a Mac.
The trouble with windoze based systems is that Bill left too many back doors open so he could snoop, now it's a freeway for all sorts to come & go.

Macs aren't immuned to these problems, they have just as many holes as windows. It's just that windows is more mainstream so thats the one that get effected most. Why go to all the trouble of creating a virus that is only going to effect a minority, Hackers and virus makers are lazy by nature, so they want maximum effect from minimal effort.

Yep, if you're trying to hit something, easier to hit a large barn (400 million Windows PCs) than a small shed (40 million Macs).

I read my mail at the Yahoo mail page, so it's impossible (?) to catch anything unless I download the attachment ... and Yahoo uses an anti-virus scan before that is permitted. If you are using a regular mail program (which is so much more powerful) there is more risk.

An Item from fred langa

Unless you've been under a rock, you know about the new worm that
exploded around the world Monday afternoon. Almost all AV tools that use
"heuristics" were able to detect and block this worm before formal
definitions were released; and almost all the major AV vendors did have
definition updates available within hours of the worm's appearance,
anyway.

That, plus the fact that the worm relied on human help--- people had to
click on an unknown email attachment to launch the worm--- should have
meant that the worm went nowhere. Instead, it probably will end up as
the most-widely distributed worm of all time. (Sigh.) I've gotten
literally thousands of infected emails here, all of which were
harmlessly filtered and discarded.

I won't beat a dead horse--- or a live worm: You can read about the
worm, and how to recover from it if you're infected, at your favorite AV
vendor's site, such as this: http://langa.com/u/3h.htm .

But beyond stating the obvious--- use an up-to-date AV tool, and never,
ever, ever open any email attachment unless you know a priori that the
contents are safe--- there's one noteworthy twist to this worm: It was
apparently designed to take out SCO, as some kind of retaliation for
SCO's anti-Linux lawsuits.

Computers infected with the "MyDoom" virus will begin to
attempt to connect to the main page of the SCO company's
website on Feb. 1. The connection requests will come roughly
every second from each of the estimated thousands of machines
that are now infected, in an attempt to overload SCO's Web
server and knock the company's site off the Internet....
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62058,00.html

I think SCO's suits are wrong, but this isn't the way to fight back. I
hope whoever wrote this virus is caught and sent away for a long, long
time. What a waste of time, bandwidth, and effort!