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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-09-10 10:17 PM
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Email virus going around ("Here you have")
It hit worldwide today (including NASA)... our hospital and the medical school both got hit.
The subject heading is "Here you have" and it will be "from" someone you know


http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/virus-mail-spreads-online/story?id=11596433
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-09-10 10:20 PM
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1. I doubt it affects Linux, just fyi. n/t
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Zanzobar Donating Member (276 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-09-10 11:24 PM
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6. Or any mainframes
Which, by the way, still, and always, rule.

The punctuation on that one is a toss up.
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-10 07:34 AM
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13. LOL "The punctuation on that one is a toss up." Yep, that's a good one for
punctuation. :rofl: A text book head scratcher for punctuation rules.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-09-10 10:21 PM
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2. We got hit today.
As soon as I got the first one, I went office to office telling folks not to open any of them. Sadly, I didn't get to one office fast enough. csrss.exe is where this one is hiding by the looks of it on that terminal.
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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-09-10 10:57 PM
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3. Every once and a while I ask myself why I even bother with the Internet. nt
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Control-Z Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-09-10 11:12 PM
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4. For DU, of course. n/t
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Rage for Order Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-09-10 11:19 PM
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5. People who create and/or knowingly propogate viruses (virii?)...
...are anti-social dickwads who should be sentenced to 1 week in jail for every computer their masturbatory bullshit program infects. With no possibility of parole.
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stuntcat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-10 07:53 AM
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14. +1
for real tho.
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LatteLibertine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-10 01:04 AM
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7. I'm a conspiracy guy on this to a degree
Edited on Fri Sep-10-10 01:04 AM by LatteLibertine
I think some of the big AV companies have people about that create/issue viruses at times. Provide the problem and solution.
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brettdale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-10 01:05 AM
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8. Thanks for headsup
Hopefully the anti virus people will deal with it.
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ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-10 02:55 AM
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9. thanks again for the 'heads up'
and we did experience a hiccup in network activity during work hours today, but the thing never landed in my inbox...neither my work email or personal...that's unusual.

sP
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AsahinaKimi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-10 03:10 AM
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10. Thanks
for that.
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-10 04:01 AM
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11. I got hit twice this week!
Geez
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Hekate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-10 04:21 AM
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12. TY for the heads up. Fortunately I'm a Mac user; plus I never open "free offers"...
... especially of sex videos :eyes: Spam claiming to have documents for me is also routinely trashed; the only thing I made an error on was a recent Amazon.com phish, which I opened because I actually do order from Amazon.

I will send the article to Mr Hekate, because he uses them in his classroom where he teaches future programmers and network admins.

Hekate
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