Allison,
My comment was meant (kiddingly) as retort to Dave's m$ comment;
no offense meant. Interestingly, my firewall has reported 3 attacks today
all from differing intruders and citing the NetBus, UDP and SebSeven
trojan horses. Guess this new worm has brought out the pranksters.
As far as the LOVELETTER worm on my work system, I'll try the technique
you described when I get back to work. Could'nt get it deleted remotely.
allisonp wrote:
Whoa...hold
your fire..... while I haven't seen this particular beastie,
my
BlackIce Defender just set off an alarm for an
attack attempt with the
The LOVELETTER worm is real, my partners site is hammered by it.
I got a copy of it today on the shell account <where it's harmless>
and it likely can hurt me much if at all on the NTbox (you need those
virus/worm/trogan helpers like active-x).
No a desktop system at work does not need active-x nor does it need
hotmail/instant-messenger (or chat, netmeeting to name a few more).
Allison