Hi Jerry, Good thing your ISP is on the ball!
It could be a new virus or an improved version of older ones. Sobig would search for email addresses in various text files, but it was supposed to stop propagating on June 8. Bugbear uses a Windows exploit that allowed it to run without user interaction, and it uses EXE, SCR and PIF extensions. So someone who hasn't patched their computer may have caught it. There is a brief description of the top ten viruses at http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/topten/ So be sure to download the latest patches, and update your antivirus software. I haven't got the time to download tens or hundreds of megabytes for patches that may not work, and antivirus software that only gets updated after a new virus appears on the scene. So I stick to Win 3.1 and avoid all these problems. Best Regards, Mike Monett -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
