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Mydoom.F just got into one machine here which had McAfee running and fully
updated. McAfee then could not clean it. The free cleaner from Symantec (Norton AV) did the job. You can build up all sorts of defences, or you can switch over to Linux, which I am strongly considering for this office. "Gary S." Idontwantspam@net wrote in message ... On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:01:23 +0000 (UTC), (Mike Andrews) wrote: In (rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors), Cecil Moore wrote: wrote: dbjjvlhdbrpobcmbngkgdtxpoevsvbqgrocymgcgfswjqeknbn zxqlezzbvbydrbkwvttesckwdn mwtcs Just curious, does this string of letters have any meaning? I suspect it's just a pseudorandomly-generated "hashbuster" to help the spam avoid filters that hash the message body and check against known spam. Exactly. As spamfiltering has gotten better, the spammers have gotten more sophisticated. The key clue is the attachment. Besides EXE files, ANY files with the extensions COM, BAT, SCR, and PIF could also be damaging programs. Note that sometimes a file will have a name ending in more than one extension, but only the last one matters. More trickery. Do not open any attachments that you have the slightest suspicion of, no matter who appears to have sent them. A friend could have a virus on their machine, sending out copies to everyone in their address book. Get a good antivirus program, including Norton Antivirus or MacAfee, which gets frequent updates of virus definitions, and run it on EVERY file received, via email, Internet, or disk. The time and money you should put into prevention are a tiny fraction of what could be involved in recovering from a virus on your machine. Happy trails, Gary (net.yogi.bear) ------------------------------------------------ at the 51st percentile of ursine intelligence Gary D. Schwartz, Needham, MA, USA Please reply to: garyDOTschwartzATpoboxDOTcom |
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