PocketMatrix

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.

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

No we haven't

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

Groundhog

That was a different one.

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

Aah, the Secret of Nimda

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

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There were 139 this afternoon

I saw 201 last time I looked.

Dang, you won

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>