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Storm Worm variant ignites e-mail virus activity
More hype over nothing. Keep spreading the FUD ZDNet. Look, this threat is minimal at best. Corporations strip out the zip files from emails as well as other files with given extensions. Home users have antivirus and antimalware to detect problems. There is a warning window that pops up asking if you want to open the attachment and makes the user aware of the dangers of doing that. Should the user even get to the poitn of the executable Windows still asks if its ok to run it and prompts with a warning. This thing is going to be dead before you know it.
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Storm Worm variant ignites e-mail virus activity  Loverock Davidson | 04/13/07
But you forget the major headache of social engineering  Boot_Agnostic | 04/13/07
True  Loverock Davidson | 04/13/07
Not quite...  GoatTuber | 04/13/07
Sure it is  Loverock Davidson | 04/13/07
Agreed  GoatTuber | 04/13/07
Agreed  Loverock Davidson | 04/13/07
Admin's fault in this case  ibabadur1 | 04/13/07
Those are the rules we set  GoatTuber | 04/13/07
Not the best policy  7h3C4tm4n | 05/08/07
Social engineering solution...  Resuna | 04/16/07
Assuming they understand Reimag  webservant2003@... | 04/16/07
RE: Sure it is  rchasse2002 | 04/14/07
Don't change the policy to suit the Pres  gravesj@... | 04/16/07
not really FUD, this one is serious  PhilippeV | 04/16/07
My AVG caught and  bjbrock | 04/13/07
My NOD32 detected and stoped this too  rfbati | 04/14/07
ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite Blocked it to  SO.CAL Guy | 04/16/07
Some people just open all e-mails and attachments  georgeg4@... | 04/13/07
Sadness  ehwood | 04/16/07
HAHAHA!!!  NonZealot | 04/13/07
more proof?  GoatTuber | 04/13/07
good luck  xuniL_z | 04/18/07
So laughing boy  zkiwi | 04/14/07
No OS Can Protect an Idiot  rkuhn040172@... | 04/16/07
an OS any OS is only as secure as the person operating it  SO.CAL Guy | 04/16/07
So True  rkuhn040172@... | 04/16/07
THANK YOU!  ross@... | 04/16/07
I Agree with that  lynne1462@... | 04/16/07
So you mean a moderate threat  zkiwi | 04/16/07
Pretty Much  rkuhn040172@... | 04/16/07
I'd think that we saw a serious Windows threat  zkiwi | 04/16/07
errrrr  xuniL_z | 04/18/07
Not all users are idiots  dmhunter@... | 04/16/07
That Much is True . . .  joeldm | 04/18/07
McAfee working perfectly  jvierra | 04/16/07
It's not the only one  cls@... | 04/16/07
Macs get these types of emails too.  trm1945 | 04/16/07
Buy another PC, for a backup, until you buy a Mac  educateme@... | 04/16/07
Like a mental illness  mlambert890@... | 04/16/07
RE: Like a mental illness  joe6pack_z | 04/16/07
It's not the Linux thread  TonyMcS | 04/16/07
RE: It's not the Linux thread  joe6pack_z | 04/17/07
I'm an OVERTLY Linux user....  mdsmedia | 04/17/07
Do you wonder how Mac users, Linux users got that way?  MacGeek2121 | 04/18/07
You're a tool  fatrat | 04/16/07
So Why Hasn't There Been a Mac Attack?  joeldm | 04/18/07
So Why Hasn't There Been a Mac Attack?  joeldm | 04/18/07
They make such pretty paper weights!!!  wizardb@... | 04/16/07
No  ross@... | 04/16/07
The point is Windows is sucky  mbrierley | 04/16/07
Yeah, enough of the Mac and Linux fanboism...  mdsmedia | 04/17/07
A lot of 'ifs'...  vulpine@... | 04/18/07
It's person such as yourself  Boot_Agnostic | 04/17/07
It's person such as yourself  Boot_Agnostic | 04/17/07
Hmmm...  zkiwi | 04/17/07
Zdnet kept throwing a 502 proxy error  Boot_Agnostic | 04/17/07
It's person such as yourself  Boot_Agnostic | 04/17/07
It's person such as yourself  Boot_Agnostic | 04/17/07
It's is persons such as yourself  Boot_Agnostic | 04/17/07
macs suck  cybr2th | 04/17/07
Although...  zkiwi | 04/17/07
The Age Old Wives Tale  mdsmedia | 04/17/07
Mac Market Share is Actually 6%, it's doubled and if . . .  joeldm | 04/19/07
Macs don't suck, the attitudes of some of its users does  Boot_Agnostic | 04/19/07
Very well said Boot_Agnostic  SO.CAL Guy | 04/19/07
Not a bad idea.  xuniL_z | 04/18/07
2 PCs for the price of one?  vulpine@... | 04/18/07
not the same price  pablomdb@... | 04/18/07
I have thank you.  xuniL_z | 04/18/07
Re: Buy a Mac  christopherborne@... | 04/18/07
I agree, however . . .  wgraue | 04/16/07
US, Porto Rico/Dominican Rep/Haiti, and North/South Korea  PhilippeV | 04/16/07
filters like junk mail  lynne1462@... | 04/16/07
I pity you if you're using Thunderbird...  Grayson Peddie | 04/23/07
RE.EMAILS  wade@... | 04/16/07
i don't understand what you want  wade@... | 04/16/07
WORMS OR SNAKES  wade@... | 04/16/07
AVG  bountyman | 04/17/07

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