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Received some info today from McAfee warning of latest virus which attaches itself to zipfiles on download.
Virus Information
Name: W32/Sober.r@MM
Risk Assessment
– Home Users: Medium
– Corporate Users: Medium
Date Discovered: 05/10/2005
Origin: Unknown
Length: 113,551 bytes
Type: Virus
SubType: E-mail.
Symantec also know of this medium risk virus.
Ah yessss – our old friend the W32/Sober virus.
In simple terms ANY zipped file (i.e. with the extension ”.zip”) sent to you by e-mail as an attachment is high risk – even if you ‘know’ the sender.
the W32/Sober has many many variations on a theme and all of them are grossly irritating.
Sounds like you`ve had experience with this one :?
Nothing bad happened to the old PC I hope :?
@dropped-anchor wrote:
Sounds like you`ve had experience with this one :?
Nothing bad happened to the old PC I hope :?
No I’ve never had a virus on my PC (luckily). But then I update the virus definitions on my Anti-virus scanner every day and scan the whole PC once a week. I also keep the firewall up to date and regularly scan for Spyware / Malware and remove any found.
I never open attachments to e-mails unless I am certain what they are (not just who they are from).
So far over the years this has kept me free of problems.
DITTO better safe than sorry :)
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