Just goes to show how computer-illiterate most Windows users are. I just set my PC to automatically download and install patches, and to notify me when it's ready to restart my computer. Today I happened to see the little Windows Update icon in the system tray. Mouseover it, 44% complete. That's good, I thought... then I went back to browsing around and about ten minutes later it asked if I'd like to restart now or later.
See, that's about the most obvious, no-brainer thing part of Windows. The main difficulty lies in telling it to automatically check for updates. But once it's on, you could put a monkey (or even worse, my grandmother) at the computer and it would be up to date.
I mean... never, ever, ever open .exe files in email addresses because they are most likely viruses. How hard is that to understand? Apparently some people just can't get it through their head.
Next time, if you think something may be the name of a virus, go to www.sarc.com and click on the search button on the left column, then enter it in the search field. Quick way to check if it's some virus.
Another one of those "M$ patch" emails arrived to me yesterday. When I forwarded it off to abuse@..., I got an automated response that actions were being taken, yadda, yadda, yadda. Additional to that, however, the attachment was scanned by their email software, and the above designation was associated with it. I just wanted to allude here that this is possibly the virus at work in this latest wave of zombie attacks.
The section of the email response about it went as follows:
Quote:
ALERT!!!
This e-mail in its original form contained one or more attached files that were infected with a virus or worm, or contained another type of security threat.
The following attachments were infected and have been repaired:
No attachments are in this category.
The following attachments were deleted due to an inability to clean them:
1. Q305728.exe/Q305728.exe: W32.Gibe.B@mm
The Following attachments were not delivered due to inbound mail policy violations:
No attachments are in this category.
I guess what this is all coming down to is that not only are PC viruses an epidemic problem for PC users, but they end up being an annoyance for Mac users, as well, when we get all of their spoofed emails.
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See, that's about the most obvious, no-brainer thing part of Windows. The main difficulty lies in telling it to automatically check for updates. But once it's on, you could put a monkey (or even worse, my grandmother) at the computer and it would be up to date.
I mean... never, ever, ever open .exe files in email addresses because they are most likely viruses. How hard is that to understand? Apparently some people just can't get it through their head.
Originally posted by Randycat99
Is there a significance to the term:
W32.Gibe.B@mm
?
Is that the name of a virus?
Perhaps to be a bit more lucid, yes it's a virus and here's the info:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com...gibe.b@mm.html
Next time, if you think something may be the name of a virus, go to www.sarc.com and click on the search button on the left column, then enter it in the search field. Quick way to check if it's some virus.
The section of the email response about it went as follows:
ALERT!!!
This e-mail in its original form contained one or more attached files that were infected with a virus or worm, or contained another type of security threat.
The following attachments were infected and have been repaired:
No attachments are in this category.
The following attachments were deleted due to an inability to clean them:
1. Q305728.exe/Q305728.exe: W32.Gibe.B@mm
The Following attachments were not delivered due to inbound mail policy violations:
No attachments are in this category.
I guess what this is all coming down to is that not only are PC viruses an epidemic problem for PC users, but they end up being an annoyance for Mac users, as well, when we get all of their spoofed emails.