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This is the last time I’m gonna say it…

January 26, 2004 By: bio Category: General

People… for the love of all that’s good and pure… STOP CLICKING ON EVERY DAMN FILE YOU GET IN YOUR EMAIL!!!!

There’s something nasty going around at the moment. McAfee is calling it W32/Mydoom@MM (Symantec calls it W32.Novarg.A@mm. It sends you a file (could be any of a number of extensions: exe, pif, scr, or even the trused zip). Theres no way to tell that it’s a virus except by looking at the size of the message/attachment (32kb on the message, 22,528 bytes for the file)

In the last 30 minutes, I’ve received over 50 infected messages… and they’re coming in faster each minute.

The problem here is it’s hard to know where it came from, as it can spoof emal addresses from your address book and/or make them up.

So basically… don’t open any attachments you receive until you’ve updated your anti-virus software and patched your system. If you don’t have anti-virus… please, unplug your computer from the net and put it back in the box it came in, then burn it.

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