Watch out for virus!! Could arrive today!! 2/25

Got nailed with this W32/Netsky.c@MM today. It comes in the form of an e-mail with a .zip attachment. Subject is "love letter" attachment is called "tear.zip" Body says "Yep" Could come from anyone...EVEN A FAMILIAR NAME!! I was in the process of opening mail today, came across it...considered it a bad virus and went to delete it, instead I opened it. It placed 137 instances of the virus into my system and began sending infected e-mails at a rate of more than 10 every thirty seconds!! Virus scan allowed me to stop the e-mails, but Virus Scan did not pick up the virus the first try!! Not until I quickly updated McAfee and got a new signature file. Then it found the 137 infected files and deleted them. I think I'm OK now, but this was a scary 45 minutes I just went through. Wanted to give you all a little heads up! Especially those of you who are stupid enough (like me) to have the net on the same system as ProTools!! (ha!) Back to work...

tnx for the heads up :=) Cheers ari

Mydoom's been around for a while. There's a free utility called for removing it. Stinger will catch viruses/trojans/worms Norton will miss. It's worth downloading this now and storing it somewhere easily accessible, as you may not be able to download it if you get infected. Watch out for attachments called *****.doc.scr Don't be fooled. These are NOT doc files. They are always viruses. I use Yahoo for mail, which scans for viruses. A few days ago I did a Google search on my name to see what might be out there about me. Used to be fun. This time I found a whole load of new stuff with links named Box live x live cam live vo kelly live regis live erotic emeril ... and my name buried in the descriptive text. Curious, I clicked on one. Immediately my PC crashed. On reboot I got a virus warning. Norton told me I had the Backdoor worm on my C: drive and fixed it. A subtle point to note: I do not boot from my C: drive, otherwise the worm would have been activated and god knows what damage it would have done. This is one huge advantage of having a multiple boot system, and of booting from a partition other than C: I also have two internet capable partitions on this machine. If one gets screwed up, I can always use the other to hunt on the net for a fix.