At 07:21 μμ 4/2/2002 +0000, you wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >On Sun, 3 Feb 2002 at 16:59:31, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: > >(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > > >>At 09:21 μμ 3/2/2002 +0000, you wrote: > >> > >>>I am sorry I have discovered that the BadTrans virus had infected my > >>>machine. My apologies if I have infected someone else, but I think I > picked > >>>it up through the group originally, so there is probably someone else with > >>>the problem. Fortunately it was no more than a couple of days, but that is > >>>long enough to do damage. > > > >>Hi Geoff, > >>the singular MOST important thing you need to do to get rid of worms of > >>that kind is.... > >>to get rid of Outlook you are using :-) > >> > >>You wouldn't have any trouble with Eudora for example :-) > >... or Turnpike. This is Demon's mailer, but is generally usable for > >about £25 I think. It is a quite superb piece of software. > >I can second that Turnpike is superb piece of software, if you want a >good email system ... with great potential for more sophisticated use. > >However, it all depends with a virus what it is aimed at. > >The best thing with anything supicious is not to read it ! Yet we all >succumb at some time. Another way is to examine it in an editor - only >- to check out its contents ... yet you need some expertise there. > >Usually the virii are written in compiled Visual Basic ... as this is >what is available to the authors of this rubbish. So look out for >anything with .com or .exe in the file name.
Not really mostly interpreted VB for Applications (Comes bundled with every major M$ product) Also the newest trick is to send a .COM file (Most post 95 users nowadays don't know that these are executable files) and the user perceives it as a link :-)))) Phoebus
