New Worm & New Trojan Horse!!!

[Doodles :)]

They are called W32.Sasser.B.Worm (info here securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sasser.b.worm.html ) and Trojan.Adwaheck (info here securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.adwaheck.html )

Here is a Norton site www.symantec.com/region/reg_eu/
There are other worms, trojans, etc. which you'll see if you click on the latest threats link! But the Sasser Worm appears to be the biggest threat though!

[Malefact]

I can vouch for that - I fell foul of that friggin' worm. I got the 60-second shutdown sequence. However, a good friend in the know gave me the following extremely useful instructions for what to do if the countdown comes up:

(1) Click 'Start'
(2) Click 'Run'
(3) Type 'shutdown -a'

It kills the shutdown sequence!

The first thing to do is to download the Windoze security patches. Then download and run Symantec's Sasser-Worm find'n'kill program. Then update your virus killer program and get it to do a full system scan.

Installing the security patches before killing the virus ensures that the virus doesn't re-install itself afterwards.

Always remember to check for security updates and scan your computer at least once a week.

[Doodles :)]

So it's similar or the same as that Blaster Worm a few months ago, that I happened to get. Hmm I looked for the online virus scan from the Norton site, which I used to use and all I could find was the Internet Security scanner. It appears that they don't scan online anymore, unless I just couldn't see it. I think that they don't scan anymore because they want you to buy the latest version! Thankfully I havn't seemed to have gotten any viruses yet, unless I havn't noticed them. I did get a lot of what seemed to be dodgy emails/spam a while back amd I got one the other day. One I got a while back had the address of a friend (whos address is in my address book) and they said that they hadn't sent it when I asked them. The message was an attachment. My fried also had a forum which was hacked into and the hacker may have got all the addresses/ISPs and hacked into them. My friend shut down the forum, but that's before I started getting dodgy mail. They said that others had been getting dodgy mail also!

[PhoenixFlame]

I really hate the people who make those viruses! Why can't they do something useful with their time? Well, my work place is safe as it still uses windows 95!

[Doodles :)]

I'm running on Windows 98, so that's why I havn't been affected. Linux and Unix users are not affected neither. Only those running 2000 and above are affected.