[gorgon_123]

hello hello,

my papers have been written, my exams are "fully" studied for... i'm back. just wanted to remind people to update their virus definitions! my girlfriend, whilst checking her yahoo!mail, downloaded an .exe file from an email, which then decided to eat my entire computer.

all my files were lost. very sad. very very sad. i have 75% of my cd collection converted to mp3, (320bit rate, cbr). that's a lot of music. all gone. !!! grrr!!! so, please, update those virus definitions and don't be a dork and open files that haven't been scanned.

on the plus side i bought windowsXP to replace millenium that i was using before the virus took hold. i'm very pleased with it, it's super funky/goofy and runs pretty damn smooth. nice layout. life is better.

-jeff (aka gorgon)

 

[acidtripwow]

Man that sucks, I know how you feel. I lost one of my clients servers because of the nimda virus and boy did I get reamed for that one!

We now delete all *.exe files coming through their Exchange server. I update my files every week. My client uses McAfee which sucks in my opinion and we use Trend Micro for the Exchange server. They just make you run through hoops to update your files. And remember to update your engine too. My Trend Micro Scanmail wasn't updating for a while. I found that if the pattern file number in the registry does not match the pattern file number in the Trend\Smex directory then it won't update.

 

[eric343]

Hmm... And here I am, having not updated my Norton defs in ~6mo-1yr and having only gotten 1 virus - a few years ago off IRC. Either I'm really lucky or I use Nutscrape Messenger, which dosen't have the built-in SwissCheese Secur-I-TEE(tm) model of Outlook Expresh.

 

[ai0tron]

*In a low low voice...* "I have never had a virus..." *Ducks back into the shadows*

 

[Dusty Chalk]

Quote:

Originally posted by eric343 Hmm... And here I am, having not updated my Norton defs in ~6mo-1yr and having only gotten 1 virus - a few years ago off IRC. Either I'm really lucky or I use Nutscrape Messenger, which dosen't have the built-in SwissCheese Secur-I-TEE(tm) model of Outlook Expresh.

No, I use Netscape, and it's not immune, but yes, it's a L of a lot better than Outlook.

 

[dngl]

Sorry about your plight, but at least you'll stop listen to those nasty mp3s

unless they're bootlegs, in which case I am in mourning with you.

 

[chych]

I thought it was quite clear that people should not open exe's in main messages... oh well, the computer illeterate must exist somehow...

Oh well, no nasty virii for me, go Macs

 

[MacDEF]

Quote:

Oh well, no nasty virii for me, go Macs

Yeah, nice bonus, eh?

 

[eric343]

Damn, I gotta get a good Mac, and OSX.1

BTW, what happened to MacDEF: Headphone person? Headphone Hussy, sounds, well, wimpy and censored. At least do Headphone Whore

(I guess too many people complained...)

 

[CaptBubba]

Nimda was a pain in the rear to get rid of, we still had it lurking on some people's computers here for a month. But yeh, *.exe files are bad, but even if you don't know that outlook won't let you open them, or .vbs files. Microsoft did something good for once!

 

[PC Corp]

Too bad for you

I ALWAYS back up my files now.
It's just so painful when everything in you computer is gone.

Good luck man.

 

[BenG]

Over the past 2 months or so I've gotten several emails from fake addresses, with no message, but with virus plagued attachments.

The attachments were scanned automatically on hotmail through macafee.com so I knew I likely wasn't going to get eaten up by opening them.

How do find out who keeps f@%*in' with me?

 

[PC Corp]

haha,
that's why I want to block all the cookies.

And I've given up my hotmail account long time ago.

 

[gorgon_123]

i miss my bookmarks

...

anyway. what does everyone here use to backup their PCs? (or macs..?) I gotta look into that now. I have two 20gb HDs so I don't feel like burning CDs..... any better ideas? does anybody still use tape backups? i know my dad used to do that in the early 90's.

 

[PC Corp]

I use an external CD burner. with blank CDs so cheap now, what are you waiting for?