Internet Worms

By Mark on Thursday 11 September 2003 at 16:23

How many more of these are we going to have?

The last, what, ten major viruses have all been pretty much exactly the same. An email attachment arrives with a weird filename, apparently from one of your friends, who hasn't mentioned anything about it. Hmmm…

How long before people catch on? Will they never learn?

If you don't know what it is, DON'T RUN IT. It's that simple.

They can carry on patching the endless security holes in Windows, but they can't patch the average internet user's brain…

2 comments:

On Thursday 11 September 2003 at 21:59, Al said:

Yeah I got the blaster worm, dunno how though....Don't think it was through my email.
Anyhow, I only found out because norton internet secruity kept on telling me that this program, Msblast.exe was trying to connect to the net...Once Norton anti virus updated its self, I found out that I had this worm/virus.
Got rid of it in the end.
But it still remains a mystery to how I got it...(I'm not owning up to the fact it was my fault)

On Friday 12 September 2003 at 10:57, Mark Bell said:

The problem is, none of these viruses are really viruses. They're just programs that you run, so virus checkers don't pick them up!

I remember the old days, when virus writers at least had some imagination....

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