Brandon Payne wrote:
> WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!?!?! THIS IS NOT OF MY DOING!!!
Ok, for the record.....
The virus that was sent was the BAGEL / BEAGLE virus.
Don't sweat it guy - someone who either has you in thier Address book,
or has seen your email address on a website is infected. The chances you
actually DO have the infection are miniscule at best.
For Everyone:
If you don't have an antivirus program, hit up www.download.com and look
around in the AV section for something that fits the bill: There are
some GREAT products there that are FREE!
Once you do, keep those programs up to date - update them *minimally*
once a week... I highly advise updating every time you connect to your
ISP. (I actually autoupdate every 2 hrs plus manually 2 times a day.)
Besides that, check out AdAware, Spybot Search and Destroy, Hijack This,
ZoneAlarm.... there's hordes of programs to help keep your (MS-Windows)
comps safe. (Apple Macintosh / *nix / *BSD systems need not apply.)
Don;t forget folks, the first step in your safe computing regiment is
*you*! Don;t go randomly opening emails if you don;t know who its from -
and especially not attachments you aren't expecting.
This from the ShujinTribble Old-School Paranoid Computing Training
Course (patpen)... Oh, yeah... and I'm ISP Tech Support out in Western
New York's snow belt (near Buffalo).
--
Shujin Tribble
Spamer (SPAH-muhr) n. - A sub-class of netizen that should have his/her
testicles and/or nipples connected to his/her computer's power supply
(after said power supply has been hevilly modified to produce 12,000 VAC
_at_ 49.3 Amp)
"I may have invented control-alt-delete, but Bill Gates made it really
famous,"
David Bradley at the twentieth anniversary of the PC.
Received on Tue Mar 09 2004 - 23:22:50 CST