Thanks for the heads up, Barry. It is seldom that these warnings are
credible, but yours sounds legit.
I have my own virus. It's called "Buy a new PC from Dell and 3 months Later
Your Hard Drive Fails". Now, I'm not pissed (at them) that my data files
are toast, but they are very uncooperative with getting me the correct
drivers, etc. to get going again. It will be a week before they send me a
disk to reload everything on the hd again. Lesson learned: backup
EVERYTHING, often; in this age of poor quality and virus-geeks....
Rant over.
Terry Banbury
Mk III I didn't know Lucas made hard drives?
> ----------
> From: Barry Schwartz[SMTP:bschwart@pacbell.net]
> Reply To: Barry Schwartz
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 10:12 AM
> To: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Cc: spitfires@autox.team.net
> Subject: Virus warning (yeah I know, but this ones real)
>
>
> I don't usually send this stuff out, but this one affected me (indirectly)
> This one is NOT a hoax. Many of the computers here at work were affected
> with this virus (not somebody that somebody knew that told me etc.) The
> computer next to my cubical here at work had it's hard drive windows exe
> files trashed among several others - It's a variation of the Trojan worm
> with the filename IROC.EXE. it comes with a note saying something to the
> effect of here's a neat little Star Trek screen saver. if executed from
> your e-mail program, It finds your mailing list(s) and sends itself out to
> (in this case the first 60 people on the global list that it found) and I
> was one of the recipients, but saved it to disk instead of opening it.
> Others here were not so lucky. As with anything sent via E-MAIL do NOT
> open any executable (*.exe) files unless you have VERIFIED that (A) it
> came
> from someone you trust (and that means e-mailing them back and asking if
> they actually sent, and used it), or (B) saving it to a disk, then scan it
> first with a virus checking program. While it may not catch all of them,
> it sure beats having most or all your files destroyed. Most people here
> at
> work "assumed" that because it was sent by somebody they knew at work,
> and,
> that "it was already checked" that it was alright. It just goes to show
> the importance of verifying things sent via e-mail that you aren't
> entirely
> sure about. At work they use NAV for checking this stuff, but apparently
> this one is too new and they didn't have it updated to scan for this
> particular strain of this virus-
> Makes you wonder abut these lowlife pond scum that have nothing better to
> do than destroy other peoples property, and think it's a big joke -
> Oh well, just thought I'd pass the info along for what it's worth - if it
> saves somebody this grief then it's worth the bandwidth and slight
> inconvenience of having to read this, at least in my opinion -
> Geeze, the guy next to me gets a three day weekend, humm. . . maybe I
> should have opened that file after all :-)
>
>
> Barry Schwartz (San Diego) bschwart@pacbell.net
>
> 72 PI, V6 Spitfire (daily driver)
> 70 GT6+ (when I don't drive the Spit)
> 70 Spitfire (long term project)
>
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