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Have I found a virus?????
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Believe it or not I think I finally found a virus. My ISP is VERY good about these things but this evening I found an email with a blank for the subject and from someone I dont know named "spidey2@aol.com" There was an attachment with a file named file.scr and was 24k in size. I opened it [it opened with graphic converter] and got a little fragment purporting to be the data fork of an unknown file format. Could this be the much feared MYDOOM virus that just snuck through. I have a LinkSys router and am huddled behind it, and behind the router I run HenWen - the mac osx version of the NIDS Snort. Could I have actually found a virus??? Oh My - so exciting!!!
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I get this crap all the time. The best part about them is usually the sub-standard English trying to convince you to open them 
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Why did you do that?!!!
Graphic converter is probably now infected!
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Originally posted by drjoe:
Believe it or not I think I finally found a virus. My ISP is VERY good about these things but this evening I found an email with a blank for the subject and from someone I dont know named "spidey2@aol.com" There was an attachment with a file named file.scr and was 24k in size. I opened it [it opened with graphic converter] and got a little fragment purporting to be the data fork of an unknown file format. Could this be the much feared MYDOOM virus that just snuck through. I have a LinkSys router and am huddled behind it, and behind the router I run HenWen - the mac osx version of the NIDS Snort. Could I have actually found a virus??? Oh My - so exciting!!!
the funny thing about this post is that drjoe claims to be a forensic pathologist in his profile.
-r.
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That is probably MyDoom, or one of its cousins.
If you're on a Mac, then it cannot infect you; you are perfectly safe. But if you give the file to a Windows user and they actually run it, it could infect them.
Just delete the file as you would any other, and you'll be fine.
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Er... why did you open the file? What if it had been the first ever MacOS X virus and you were the unlucky sucker who got it first? Well done! You could have just infected your machine. 
Basic rule of thumb for any anti-virus activity that would probably stop or reduce more than half of the viruses and trojans in their tracks if people followed it - If you don't know who it's from, don't friggin' open it! Sheesh.
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sheesh ...
as far as i know those pc viruses are spreading to everyone in their address book, so you'll be getting virus from a FRIEND (or at least a person who has you in his address book) ...
need new rules ...
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The myDoom virus is spreading rampantly. I admin a small email server for about 100 users, and while perusing the logs today, I parsed it and found over 500 infected files sent just by 11am today.
I am so glad I have a Mac that is not prone to this stuff. Oh, and thanks to declude virus protection on the Windows 2000 server as well.
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I think all of you may have missed the posters point. I dont think he is scared he got a virus and is looking to see how to get rid of it. Rather I think he is excited at the prospect of finally seeing one of these mystical virii everyone gets. He sounded more curious than anything. I pictured him like poking it with a stick and saying, "Wow! this just may be one of them thar viruses I be hearin' bout!"
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Originally posted by 3R1C:
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I pictured him like poking it with a stick and saying, "Wow! this just may be one of them thar viruses I be hearin' bout!"
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One of my favorite Onion headlines ever was
"Do not click me, you idiot" virus spreads like wildfire.
People just can't stand not clicking the damn things.
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Originally posted by chris v:
"Do not click me, you idiot" virus spreads like wildfire.
You know what, one day there really will be something like this. I just don't trust PC users.
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109 GB!!!
Don't open evil email.
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