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Old 18 September 2003, 07:30 PM
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A new Virus is starting to get around.....
McAfee has put this to Medium alert and added 4294 DATS

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100662.htm

edited for BB and JC lol :P

[Edited by Nicks VR4 - 9/19/2003 1:48:24 PM]
Old 18 September 2003, 11:31 PM
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Another good reason not to use KaZaA
Old 19 September 2003, 10:03 AM
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Another good reason not to use computers, bring back the pen, paper, postman and secretary
Old 19 September 2003, 11:13 AM
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Don't you get a secretary? Didn't know they'd died out with the introduction of computers

That's a shame m8
Old 19 September 2003, 11:43 AM
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It's terrible here, I even have to make my own coffee.
Old 19 September 2003, 11:53 AM
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A new Virus is starting to get around
McAfee
Full Stop ...

LMFAO (Sorry Jack, only kidding mate)

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Old 19 September 2003, 12:16 PM
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Jack

Given the recent outbreak of virii, & the likely increased sales & pressure that might bring to NAI, you recruitin'?

Its that time of the year again - need a job
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But not as your coffee/tea-maker or secretary - you'd hate my drinks and I've got a boney bum
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YHM
Old 20 September 2003, 11:47 PM
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This is a nasty one. I logged into my yahoo account and my e-mail box was full! I had loads of e-mails from computers which obviously had this worm. They all pretend to be from Microsoft outlining an important security patch and have attachments of between 130k and 160k. Most IT-savvy people would just delete them but a 'normal' home user will open them and believe they have to run the attachment which looks very official and very slick. Befoe they know it, and unknown to them it's got all their correspondent's e-mail addresses and is e-mailing them the same thing continuously.

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Loads here at home too. And I don't normaly get spam of any kind.

Just remember kids 'Microsoft do not send updates via email'
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