Virus writers trade insults as e-mail users suffer Some 20 variants spreading ....

MSNBC ^ | Updated: 3:31 p.m. ET March 03, 2004 | Bob Sullivan - Technology correspondent

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Hacks, Viruses, Scams & Spam

Virus writers trade insults as e-mail users suffer

Some 20 variants spreading across Net at furious rate

By Bob Sullivan

Technology correspondent

MSNBC

Updated: 3:31 p.m. ET March  03, 2004

With 20 variations of the Mydoom, Netsky and Bagle viruses circulating around the Internet, it's becoming clear that computer virus writers are engaged in some kind of can-you-top-this game. And it's Internet users who are suffering collateral damage. 

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E-mail inboxes around the world are teeming with cryptic notes that have simple messages like "Here is the file," or "I want a reply." When antivirus companies give names to malicious programs, they add letters to virus names as a way of indicating variants, with NetSky.A being the initial version, NetSky.B the second variation, NetSky.C the third, etc. On Wednesday, researchers were up to NetSky.F, Bagle.K, and Mydoom.H.

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[VOA]

Open the cover on the PC, pull out your vaccuum cleaner and remove the thick coating of
dust from your power supply that is probably causing your system to overheat and shut down.

It could be that you've "cut to the chase".
This would be something that should be tried before spending long hours on
attempts to see if malware is the problem.
Especially if the computer is even a year or so old...and/or
in a location prone to lots of dust accumulation (e.g., sitting on the floor).

(Of course, I have an excuse for not recollecting this smart first move...
"I'm just a novice"!)

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And you have been registered here since 1998?

[VOA]

And you have been registered here since 1998?

Well, cleaning up the accumulated detritus on an aged Dell (Win95!) and not
losing "the patient"...that's not my day-job or hobby!

Shooting from the hip on threads and pontificating...now I'm no novice on that! LOL!

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ROFL!

Carry on!!

[redhawk]

I just got an update which appears to be from Microsoft with an attachment named "DELETEDO.TXT". Does anyone know what this is? Frankly, I'm not opening any attachments unless I know what it is.

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An email?