Sobig worm - Second Wave

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If you're referring to my comment, its "Unknown file attachments" that you
shouldn't blindly open. Find out who sent it to you, and why, and then scan
and open.

--Tina
 
one of my home machines got hit this week. Girlfriend opened an attachment
from my mom without noticing that the from address showed her e-mail address
instead of her name ( as we've set it up) and said wicked screen saver--70
year o ld women don't title e-mails wicked screen saver, anyway, luckily the
network code is bugged and it was isolated to one machine--I have an entire
lab set up in this house--can't get over my IT ways! ;)
 
slumpy said:
"So, Mr Slumpy you *really* are the perpetual comedian, aren't you
?" I threw back my head and roared with laughter as Tina -
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Nothing worse than reading "well my son, who knows *all* about
computers, he sent me this screensaver called 'your details' and
since then my machine is running slow. It can't be a virus tho,
because my son...etc etc etc".

Maybe it's time to bring out a licence for computer use online ;-)
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Amen ;o)
 
It *is* sound advice, especially right now. There are new variants of
worm comming out almost daily now and no a/v package can be updated fast
enough anymore. Especially considering the a/v companies usually can't
get a definition established until AFTER the threat is in the wild and
propogating.

Go ahead and open all the attachments you want, just keep me out of your
address book :)

Steve
 
....and your negative advice comes from... Of course AV definitions can be updated *** before*** a threat is in the wild. Bloody scaremonger.

Will
 
It's not negative, it factual. How can any a/v company define a
virus/worm if it hasn't been even been created yet? Do you think those
who write the malicious code are sending sneak-preview releases to them?

Believe what you will but save the name-calling for those who will play
that game with you; I won't.

Steve
 
It's not "almost always fine to open attachments from people you know"
unless they are telling you that they're sending you something. I never
open attachments until I speak to a person I know and make sure that they
sent it.

The current virus is trying like heck to enter our system here at work and
I've even received it from two people I know. With computers and viruses
one should never assume that something from someone you know is almost
always safe.

And to berate someone in a board forum is just plain bad form anyway.
 
It's ludicruous to say that a company can supply a solution to a virus
problem when the virus hasn't been circulated yet. That's just plain
foolishness.
 
PCyr said:
I didn't say to open all the attachments. Learn to read. "it's almost
always fine to open attachments from people you know" Keywords: "almost
always" with "people you know". If you can't read, then don't post.
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Greetings --

Not entirely. ;-} One saving grace is that many virus writers
lack imagination and often copy and modify existing viruses, so
current virus definition files still work.

Technically speaking, you're correct, of course. Virus definition
files always lag a bit behind the introduction of new viruses; it's
simply not possible to design software to detect something that does
not yet exist.


Bruce Chambers

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As well, some high-quality AVs will monitor for suspicious activities. Even
if the definition wasn't in the AV software, it would still warn me if
something tried to delete the boot.ini file, or change a system file.

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