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| Viruses... |
| 2002-05-02 |
| Since most of us get lotsa e-mail, most of us are going to get Win32.Klez when the pop-up fires out of the preview window. Somebody gifted me the @mm version, which slimes the system, tries to mail itself to somebody else, and it drops Win32.Elkern, which'll hit every .exe file on the machine and any shared drives. If you mailed me recently and I didn't answer, your message may have disappeared when I fdisked my laptop and my workstation. All McAfee was doing was deleting the infected files when it could. I saved my server, I think - I'll be able to tell tomorrow - by going to www.bitdefender.com, where they have a free download that scrubs the system. I'm cheesed that I scrubbed two systems to the bone, but I'm glad if I managed to save the server and the Little Woman's laptop and my desktop at work... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |