[sdiy] Does somebody have a virus?

[Batz Goodfortune]

Y-ellow Ken 'n' all.

At 09:43 AM 3/4/03 +1100, Ken Stone wrote:
>Someone associated with the list does have (or had) the virus, because I
>have received them with SDIY names in the last couple of days. As the virus
>so far comes from the member names, and has not been spoofed to appear as
>its from the list, or actually been sent to the list, it may just be someone
>who has emailed a lot of us independently.

Yeah. Something like that. I didn't keep the mail headers but I guess I 
should have. But for those who are concerned and don't yet have an AV 
program, I found a really good free one here. http://www.grisoft.com/ I'm 
very much impressed with this so I don't mind endorsing it. I've run a lot 
of AV programs over the years. Norton's was pure bloatware. McAfee just 
didn't work. and Ontrak-Fixit didn't like the non-standard layout I use so 
would never update. This however, is mean, lean and squashes virii like bugs.

I wasn't even aware of it's presence till it started slapping Klez around 
like Bruce Lee. And it's free. Can't beat that. So if you think you might 
need one, this is probably a real good place to look.

Or course Mac, linux, unix, SUN, SGI and vic20 users can ignore this as 99% 
of virii only ever attack wintel boxes. It seems even virus writers are 
lazy bastards and take the path of least resistance.

Sorry if this is getting way Off Topic but I'm figuring this could be 
helpful to a vast number of people here. Virus writers are probably devil 
spawn but it's really the fault of those who don't even attempt to take 
this stuff seriously and allow these things to spread far and wide. My 
network may have come under sustained attack late last year but at least I 
know I've never spread a virus. And hopefully never will.

But they get more cunning every day.

Be absolutely Icebox.

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