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VIRUS ALERT

I just recieved 120 letters of 'non-delivered' mail

It is spreading quick.....50 more.

DONT open E-mail! I didnt open, I just recieved. You cant help the flooding! That is inevitable!

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I got nothing...not that I want anything either.

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Am I the only one at the moment who had the nimda virus?

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Nothing here and hopefully will not be.

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I already patched myself.

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ooops ...

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nope.

I got the Nimbda virus, cleaned it out though. lucky I updated norton the day I got it. hehehe

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My norton is at a friends or some CRAP, and I havent installed it since I reformatted.

Yeah, its NIMDA, and I got it.....I updated to IE6.0 and it seems my explorer and outlook express are updated. But.....I think that only prevents you from getting it. How do I get RID of it!??!

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i've never had a virus at all, i was just wondering how many the rest of u have had?

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quote:

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Originally posted by Strider
My norton is at a friends or some CRAP, and I havent installed it since I reformatted.

Yeah, its NIMDA, and I got it.....I updated to IE6.0 and it seems my explorer and outlook express are updated. But.....I think that only prevents you from getting it. How do I get RID of it!??!

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i've had aone - was a nasty peice of work slowly ruined programs left riguht and center - the damange done was enough that once i got rid of it was easier to reformat and reinstall windows

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I havn't got any yet (crosses fingers).........damm the people that make these viruses.....

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i've had aone - was a nasty peice of work slowly ruined programs left riguht and center - the damange done was enough that once i got rid of it was easier to reformat and reinstall windows

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I wouldn't be able to do anything to your bios- it should be hardcoded on your motherboard (well, the necessary version at least).

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well on older machines the cih virus can do something bad to the bios, i'm not sure what but i think it wipes out the settings or something

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practice safe sex and you wont get virii

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The Magistr.A virus is one that can wipe out BIOS's on the computer. My roommate had a relatively modern computer with a top of the line Asus motherboard, and apparently he got the virus, and now had to order a new BIOS chip.

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Microsoft has a whole section on the NIMDA virus, and basically, they have said the best way to protect from it (if your an end user) is to either download a couple of specially made patches, or to get IE Browser version 6, and to download the latest security updates.

The page can be found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/topics/Nimda.asp

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I just updated my virus program and did a scan....
1487 infections were found...
13 disinfected...

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modern bioses are firmware - they can be updated and stuff - at least i think new ones are certainly my last computer had a firmware bios so a virus could just write a load of rubbish to where you biso info should be adn spluuuuuuts computer knackered until get a new bios - what i cant understand is that if i was writing a virus i would make it delete the antivirus software first thing the second it got up and running in a system - then mess with windows so you can install anything then proceed to erase all data - thankfully i dont think there are many that nasty out there cause if they were that a complete reformatting your going to need - add a mess with bios aswell and another complication - ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh computers are vulnerable indeed to viruses to hackers and god only knows what - dont know what i would do without my puter if anyone here is a good hacker then they should try and hack the talibans computers - if they have any probally not since its a western thing but anyway if they do they should find out where bin laden is hiding

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