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Marcus - 7/10/02 at 07:55 PM

Chaps, Roland's PC has caught a particularly nasty virus which has trashed his two hard drives, consequently, there will be no web site update for September (or possibly October aswell). Still don't know which virus it was, virus checker was updated days before but it still got through. It started by opening every folder on his PC and then screwed with the fonts, then locked up completely!
PC is in the process of being remastered, but any hints as to what hit it gratefully received!!

Marcus

chrisg - 7/10/02 at 09:10 PM

I don't think it is a virus, I think it's the wrath of god, which is what you get when you steal bits of my website!!!!!

Seriously, I've no ideas on which virus it is, but I hope he gets it sorted soon.

Cheers

Chris

bob - 7/10/02 at 09:11 PM

There is a real nasty one doing the rounds,i think its called "bug bear" or something like that.
It eats the PC inside out and leaves you with nout, nothing, bugger all,i think that translates to zero for most of the country starting in the north all the way down to bugger all in brighton.
As you can tell i've had beer

paulbeyer - 7/10/02 at 09:26 PM

Got Bug Bear last Friday and spent all weekend rebuilding my PC. I managed to discover it before it had wiped everything so I managed to save a few bits but it completely buggered my OS. Worst thing was it infected format.com so I couldn't even reformat my hard drive.

Sorted it in the end though.

MrFluffy - 8/10/02 at 08:16 AM

*looks at his worm patched linux box* What is a virus again? ,oh its one of them microsoft thingys..

David Jenkins - 8/10/02 at 08:49 AM

I must admit that I've now de-activated all communications links on the Windows bit of my dual-boot PC (although I still run the AVG virus checker and ZoneAlarm on the PC)

All my e-mail and web access is done through Linux.

rgds,

David

Dazza - 8/10/02 at 09:00 AM

i had bug bear the other day, luckily my noton antivirus spotted it, and told me to download a file from the site, and howw to delete the virus. so after a mild heart attack, it was deleted, seems to have done no lasting damage. I HOPE!

interestedparty - 8/10/02 at 09:55 AM

quote:
*looks at his worm patched linux box* What is a virus again? ,oh its one of them microsoft thingys..



Don't feel left out, as soon as there are enough people running Linux systems to make it worth their while then the nasty tw*ts who write viruses will start targeting them as well

John

Findlay234 - 8/10/02 at 10:34 AM

well, no not actually, im not on the side of the linux boys cause im a win-doze user myself,

the fact of it is theres a load of flaws present in the windows system that can be exploited by hackers and viruses. linux doesnt have these or only has a few and theyre hard to find. its why youve never seen a linux computer crash, just a much tighter package, the only reason people dont use it is because its hard to get the hang of and not much software is made for it.

cheers

James - 8/10/02 at 11:46 AM

One way of telling if it's bug bear is if it ran your printer until it ran out of paper. As happened to a couple of print servers here at work- wasted about 5 trees worth!

I tell you, if I ever meet the guy....

john_s - 8/10/02 at 06:07 PM

I had bugbear on saturday. Got the gibberish print outs to prove it too!

John.

ChrisW - 8/10/02 at 07:16 PM

quote:
*looks at his worm patched linux box* What is a virus again? ,oh its one of them microsoft thingys..


Watch out for linux.slapper.worm which is going around at the moment. One of my servers was hit with it last week - only just managed to save it. It exploits a vunerability in OpenSSH through Apache so make sure you've got the up2date packages.

Chris