Virus

[lynchet]

Hmm out of interest is the W32Bugbear.B@mm virus particularly prevalent at the moment.

Apart from (I assume) false alerts on Barrys on Gameplay emails I havent been sent a virus bef and now twice in a week Ive had a report that Barrys has intercepted this being sent to me (from different addresses)

 

[Deadmanwalking]

I have had the same but more frequently.

 

[Greef]

Yes, due to the isp we use at work being a bunch of lamers, I recently found we had bugbear@mm, bugbear.b@mm and hooker.dll on the PC at work!!!! And it sent out copies of potentially sensitive emails to all and sundry from our address book, complete with viral attatchments!!!! :doh:

Luckily the PC concerned is only connected to the internet for a few minutes each day, so the effect was minimal. And a quick dose of McAfee sorted it! - had my boss worried for a while though!

Suitable punishements for virus creators anyone? Would birching be too harsh?

 

[Custodian]

Bugbear-B was/is very prevelant and rated pretty annoying by AV peeps.
Check out Sophos or similar for details.

(In fact it was so prevelant that when it first hit about a week or so back sophos had to remove the graphics from their webby due to the amount of hits it was getting )