Re: Please update your Virus checkers - SWEN-A is rampant - and I'm getting squillions of emails.....

"Robin Tucker" <r.tucker_at_thermoteknix.com> wrote in news:bkf8tj$hul$1$830fa79d_at_news.demon.co.uk:

> http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/swen.shtml
>
> Advisory above. I'm getting approximately 500 emails a day from posting
> on newsgroups.

            From a geek's perspective, the virus is brilliantly written, I have to admit, reading the site you posted. I was shocked by the fact how easy it is for a worm to install itself over a network as a startup executable by adding a link to the startup folders of other machines. I never would have thought of that as a possible security thing (of course, no user should be able to write into other people's startup folders...)

            I fear this thing is among us for a long period of time :(

            FB Received on Sat Sep 20 2003 - 04:52:03 CDT