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Post by TheSearchIsOn on Dec 8, 2001 18:59:42 GMT -5
ATTN: U of T Comp Sci students. There is a virus in the 108 newsgroup that may have infected your comp it is a trojan that can steal your windows passwords and spread from your computer to others. I suggest you immediately update your virus scanner and run a full system scan. Also you may want to run windows update. Pass this message on to anyone you know that may have been exposed to this.
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Post by 1.8T on Dec 9, 2001 10:51:01 GMT -5
acckkk .no wonder why my outlook express is wack lately., i can't even open it., ., ., .. AVP didn't pick up anything though..,
damnit!., u would think UT newsgroups are clean!
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Post by TheSearchIsOn on Dec 9, 2001 10:55:04 GMT -5
I'm not too sure how that particular virus checker works but I know that it almost slipped through with me because Norton doesn't automatically protect against new e-mail accounts (i.e. the one I set up to access the newsgroup from home) which is a pretty dumb setting if you ask me. It should add all new accounts to its auto-protect list but anyways... I think I avoided infection because I recently ran windows update and d'led a patch to protect my system from that particular vulnerability.
Now if only Microsoft could make a patch that keeps spyware off of my comp... AdAware just doesn't get rid of all of it... *sigh*
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Post by Sylph on Dec 29, 2001 12:50:58 GMT -5
i updated norton antivirus and ran a full system scan, but it didn't detect anything. however, i'm having a lot of errors - opening a word document, creating rescue disk for norton, shutting down... everytime, it says "A fatal exception OD has occurred at FFFF:0000FFFF. The current application will be terminated." I can't even shut down properly.  |
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