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Yet Another Windows Worm
kraksmoka writes "MSNBC is reporting that yet another active worm is taking over computers in 115 countries today. 'Antivirus companies were on high alert Thursday after the rapid spread of a new computer worm that includes particularly malicious snooping techniques. Bugbear.B, a variant of a worm released last year, installs keylogging software, back-door software, and in some cases even attempts to control infected computersâ(TM) modems. Some of the wormâ(TM)s functions are designed to specially target financial institutions.' Yummy!"
I never have a problem with these worms. I downloaded Windows Robin(TM) a long time ago!
Imagine how much harder physics would be if electrons had feelings! -Feynman, maybe
It's time to face the facts: Windows just isn't ready for the desktop.
Quick, get your patch here
"Do you read PC Gamer?"
"No, I run Linux."
"Derp de derp."
"Do you have a sex life?"
"No, I run Linux."
What do you mean? Linux is my sex life!
"Uh... Patch for what? I was unaware I could apply a "patch" that would prevent me from getting viruses."
Actually, there are a lot of patches for this problem... Mozilla, Evolution, Safari...
--Richard
"Do you read PC Gamer?"
"No, I run Linux."
Y'know, the money you save by not buying Windows and Office will more than pay for your 2 game consoles of choice. Or, if your two consoles of choice are out of stock, you could just get an X-box.
They should make a category for this, "Yet Another Windows Nasty", since they're not all worms [ahem].
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
download the removal utility.
Our University is being hit hard, especially because almost all classes and departments have these massive listservs and the listserv software is so archaic that it doesn't have viral replication blocking. Oh well, at least I get the personal enjoyment of reading other people's e-mails that get cloned. So far I've got 2 that involve people talking about me behind my back. There's always a golden lining people.
It's not stupid. It's advanced.
handy little solution that has been around for a while.. (jpeg image file)
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Close. I believe the quote actually goes...
"Do you have a sex life?"
"No, I read PC Gamer."
Waiting for his girlfriend to get back to him?
This is why Linux users are less suceptible to worms...
add the following value to the registry:
i on s/Mail
HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Office/10.0/Outlook/Opt
REG_DWORD: ReadAsPlain = 0x01
Outlook will convert all HTML to plain text before rendering it, and turn all embedded images, etc into attachments.
And people claim that Linux (UNIX, whatever) is hard to handle.
>Please read the fucking article
:-)
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This is an EXE, not a VBScript.
.exe files again.
That's OK. Just go into the registry and delete this branch:
My Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe
Reboot, and I guarantee that computer won't have a problem with rogue
And crabs.