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virus alert: run windows update

Lordfly Digeridoo
Prim Orchestrator
Join date: 21 Jul 2003
Posts: 3,628
06-04-2004 18:45
Just in case you don't read slashdot...

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/04/1835233&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=128&tid=172&tid=185&tid=190&tid=201

There's a new virus going around that's based on a vulnerability of windows. You don't have to run anything, apparently, in order to get infected.

This one's potentially nasty... it records the keystrokes of your keyboard and sends off any juicy details to the virus writer. Meaning, he could get your credit card number, passwords, etc.

So, just run Windows Update and get all the critical updates :)

LF
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Garoad Kuroda
Prophet of Muppetry
Join date: 5 Sep 2003
Posts: 2,989
06-04-2004 21:15
Thanks for the alert!
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BTW

WTF is C3PO supposed to be USEFUL for anyway, besides whining? Stupid piece of scrap metal would be more useful recycled as a toaster. But even that would suck, because who would want to listen to a whining wussy toaster? Is he gold plated? If that's the case he should just be melted down into gold ingots. Help the economy some, and stop being so damn useless you stupid bucket of bolts! R2 is 1,000 times more useful than your tin man ass, and he's shaped like a salt and pepper shaker FFS!