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Good and bad news about the virus
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 3, 2004 2:35 PM
Good news. I just found out what virus I have. I have the Sasser Worm (A new virus that doesn't come by email). Bad News. Nothing to fix it[:(]
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 3, 2004 3:00 PM
I have the virus that affects my keyboard and makes me type all funny like..uh-oh ist comihfbjmhnz dhj v sdbjUgv
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 3, 2004 3:02 PM
OK now on the serious side.

If you have E-mail that looks like this don't open it... DO NOT~!!

From: anybody@hotmail.com or anywhere.com
Subject: Mail Failure Delivery, Mail Deamon, Mail failure Deamon, etc...

Do not open messages that have a weird address and are titled "MAIL FAILURE" etc..

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 3, 2004 3:12 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by kevinstheRRman

OK now on the serious side.

If you have E-mail that looks like this don't open it... DO NOT~!!

From: anybody@hotmail.com or anywhere.com
Subject: Mail Failure Delivery, Mail Deamon, Mail failure Deamon, etc...

Do not open messages that have a weird address and are titled "MAIL FAILURE" etc..



Crap i've opened a few of those becuase i sent pics and the file was to large and gt sent back to me
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 3, 2004 3:30 PM
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 3, 2004 7:23 PM
The download doesn't work. [:(!]
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 3, 2004 7:45 PM
Better advice yet, just click EMPTY on Hotmail and get rid of them sun of a guns without even opening 'em!
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 3, 2004 7:48 PM
Well Sasser doesn't come via email. From what I've read it just pops up and there's nothing you can do
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Posted by timthechef on Monday, May 3, 2004 8:22 PM
It's got to get there somehow. Isn't there a Microsoft forum some where that you may find some help? When I have trouble with my Mac, (which is almost never!) I go to Apple's web site and sign into the forums and there are people there paid by Apple to help you. Microsoft should have something like that. What about Norton or McAfee virus software? Well good luck!
Life's too short to eat bad cake
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Posted by timthechef on Monday, May 3, 2004 9:06 PM
Dougal, I found this site for you.
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/sasser.asp
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, May 4, 2004 12:28 AM
Windows XP has some mighty big holes in it's software. HaXoRs have learned to use this to their advantage. Make sure your windows are updated, as microsoft makes patches for it often.


FOR EVERYONE:


Virus Guide:

Make sure you check this site out. It tells you all about the latest virus's and virus hoaxes.

http://antivirus.about.com/


Antivir:
This is a really good Antivirus system that is worth the time to download. This is the premium choise for our net of computers in our house! It's also free! [^]

http://www.free-av.com/

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