"David Chang-Sang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >heh... > >http://features.slashdot.org/features/02/06/14/1343223.shtml?tid=166 > >You folks may want to take the "sky is falling" news from the variety of >anti-virus software manufacturers with a grain of salt. Lest we forget that >they are, in fact, in the business of contributing to the fear of viruses >(yes, that's the correct pluralization of the word "virus")
Jeezis! I've never seen anything I thought was worthwhile before on slashdot but I guess there's a first time for everything. That article sums up pretty much everything I wasted to post about this virus (albeit in somewhat coarser language). This virus is an executable. Yes, it adds a copy of itself to every JPG on your hard drive, but these copies DON'T DO ANYTHING! Not to your computer or to the computer of anyone else who gets the JPG. Only transmision of the *executable* (which is accomplished through the usual email attachment trojan approach) can transmit the virus. -- Mark Roberts www.robertstech.com - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
