a new worm virus has been released over the bank holliday called SASSER, read about it here or Google search "Sasser virus"

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3678725.stm

 

or;

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/05/04/uvirus.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/05/04/ixportaltop.html

I LOL at anyone who got hit by that.

 

LOLOLOL, stinky earth fools.

 

Btw, the popular media is not the place to get info on computer security.

 

Use these:

 

http://www.securityfocus.com

 

http://www.messagelabs.com

 

http://www.sophos.com

well I must admit, it would be a bit lame for a company to get hit by it, but the average Joe that bought his PC one saturday morning from Tescos with the ambition of learning a little about this here Internetty thingummy, I feel a bit sorry for in all honesty, and sadly it`s going to hit them too and maybe put them off!?

 

[edit[ granted those sites are good too, but the BBC I semi trust as do many others, I`m sure they wouldn`t tell fibs AGAIN

Well, yeah. I feel sorry for them too. I can still laugh at them though, can't I?

 

(The ones who have an A/V and FW installed and never bother to use them properly definitely deserve it!)

The media - even the BBC - don't realise how much harm they are doing by dumbing down this subject.

 

They use terms interchangeably when they aren't, and just generally give poor advice. There was a guy on the Radio 2 news before who called Sasser a 'gremlin', which it clearly isn't.

I LOL at anyone who got hit by that.

 

Faf got hit.

 

ROFL

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HAAA HAAAAAAAAAA HA HAAAAAAAA!

 

faf you muppet, get the free removal tool from sophos

oh dear, and I really thought he would have been protected up to the nuts being an Admin and all

 

personaly, I wouldn`t know if I was or not hit by it, this thing runs so slow anyway

but I run BlackIce and ZoneAlarm in tandem as well as Norton AV, so I guess I should be safe?

...nothing you can do to avoid getting hit when someone brings it onto the LAN, bypassing the hardware firewall.

 

I removed it, by hand (only fools use antivirus programs), and downloaded the patch from MS, and it was over with in <5 minutes.

(only fools use antivirus programs)

 

Is that a comedy reply, coming from someone who's been infected?

I`de hardly consider myself a "fool"?

a good FW and AV prog certainly can`t hurt, was the way I figure it

...nothing you can do to avoid getting hit when someone brings it onto the LAN, bypassing the hardware firewall.

I hope you gave the guilty party a good telling off.

only fools use antivirus programs

What?

Only people really proud of their computer skills don't use antivirus programs.

You heard me you wussy AV program user

Only people really proud of their computer skills don't use antivirus programs.

 

Indeed. AV programs don't even catch 100% of active viruses (not ones just sitting there not doing anything), I catch more with my methods that take 5 minutes. As soon as my computer restarted once, I found and deleted the files, and googled for a patch. No more problems.

Some of us have better things to do with our time than find ways of sounding like we have l337 sk1llz.

 

I have never seen a service do its job better than the Sophos approach does; manually removing viruses and worms after they hit is sheer lunacy. Wait until you get a forced-writer, then we'll see who's a fool.

bleh and i though this was something biological

 

only fools use antivirus programs

 

this can also be extended to: only fools use WindowZ

Some of us have better things to do with our time than find ways of sounding like we have l337 sk1llz.

 

I have never seen a service do its job better than the Sophos approach does; manually removing viruses and worms after they hit is sheer lunacy. Wait until you get a forced-writer' date=' then we'll see who's a fool.[/quote']

 

It turns out to be faster to just remove things yourself than have a program scan every file on your system. Plus you have to wait for definition updates, which can be hours after a virus hits.

Tried Sophos?

 

You aren't going to be able to remove a virus if it's already written zeros across your HDs.

You heard me you wussy AV program user

Frankly I`m offended!!!

 

I thought better of you, it wasn`t my fault you got owned, and I didn`t HAVE TO post this thread as way to TRY inform or help others.

Chill YT, I think he was talking to me.

but I`m an AV prog user too, so that would also make me just as "wussy" (whatever that means, but I`m sure it`s not good).

 

I just figured it was a worthwhile "heads up" for y`all.

Seriously, though, not using AV means that it might wipe you out, and then you can't fix it. My AV doesn't even search through my files, it just looks at incoming stuff, taking a lot less time. And for 2 years I haven't had a single virus.

 

I think fafalone is too proud of his skills.

It's just sad that people rely completely on a commercial, closed-source program by a for-profit company to secure their computers against the various types of nasty programs out there. This week alone I've had to help half a dozen people (only 1 for sasser) get viruses off their computer because their anti-virus programs weren't picking them up.