Nimda virus

[TBone]

This is just a warning to anyone who hasn't heard: in the last day or so, a serious virus was released called Nimda (Admin backwards). This virus is like the sick love-child of Sircam and Code Red, as it spreads both by e-mail and by server exploits. Turning off active scripting in Internet Explorer and Outlook will keep the virus from attacking, but should it infect a computer it is not likely to be recoverable. Be very, very careful, as you do NOT have to open the e-mail to be infected.<br><br>On a personal note, this sucker hit the Forensics team computers here at Mason and pretty much completely wiped them out. Personally, I always kept active scripting off in Outlook so I wasn't as worried, but all the resources there have been scrambled, and two of the machines won't even boot. It is nasty as hell. This kind of thing makes me wish I could do everything on my Pocket PC just to avoid binary compatibility, to be honest with you. I really like Outlook and IE, but exploits for it are getting old really fast.

[Paul]

pfft, we've already had this thread. jeez.

[Moose or Chuck]

No we haven't

[Paul]

didnt dan or someone post this last night? i'm stuck in a time warp.

[Diego Cueva]

Groundhog

[Moose or Chuck]

That was a different one.

[Dan East]

Same one, but when I posted its name wasn't yet known.<br><br>Dan East

[Paul]

[jongjungbu]

Aah, the Secret of Nimda

[Luciano U. Werner]

I heard (read) Nimda was a worm. What's the difference between worm and virus (in the PC realm, obviously)?

[Paul]

108 guests on the forum!

[Diego Cueva]

There were 139 this afternoon

[Moose or Chuck]

I saw 201 last time I looked.

[Diego Cueva]

Dang, you won

[RICoder]

Luci,<br>  Actually 'Virus' is a generic term for independant, usually destructive, intrusibe software.  A worm is a 'strain', if you will, thereof.  A worm is noted as such because its behaivor is to infiltrate a system, replicate itself, and spread to as many machines as possible.  <br>  If you want oodles of info...<br><br><br><br>