Sure the worm did not come from me as I run non-M$$$ OS or softwares ... ;-)
I heard about "LoveSan" virus too ...
Hope the members will not be affected too much.
Christian
Le Vendredi 15 Août 2003 09:10, CyberSimian a écrit :
> I run Norton Internet Security on Win2K. I have the firewall part set up
> (or maybe it's the default) so that it asks me what to do when unexpected
> incoming data is received from the Internet. In previous weeks, I might
> have received a few of these per week. In the last couple of days I have
> been receiving them EVERY FEW SECONDS!!! They originate from many
> different network addresses, which is an indication of the number of
> machines on the network that are infected. (The worm on an infected
> machine scans internet addresses at random trying to find one that will
> accept data; if the machine will accept data, the worm downloads itself to
> that machine, which is then infected and the cycle repeats. I am not a
> computer-virus expert, but I believe that that it how it spreads.)
>
> -- from Cy in the UK
>
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