or why Demon put a ping filter on their routers….
Further to my rant about demon this afternoon, I got an email from Clara’s announcement mailing list where they are now filtering due to the new Nachi virus, or as Symantec calls it W32.Blaster.E. My virus alert page shows there is another virus that was detected today. I do hope you are patched AND your definitions are uptodate!
Looks like they’ve caught the idiot who created the MSBlast worm…now they just need to get the scum who wrote SoBigBBC NEWS | Technology | Youth suspected of net attack
You would have thought that people would have turned off the email notification by now.
I’m very tempted to set up an automatic response to postmaster@ as below.
> Recipient of the infected attachment: Ronit Mani\Inbox
> Subject of the message: Re: Wicked screensaver
> One or more attachments were deleted
> Attachment application.pif was Deleted for the following reasons:
> Virus W32.Sobig.F@mm was found.
>
I did not send this virus. Can i suggest you turn off these notifications as all they are doing is clogging up all the email servers which are struggling enough already!
Thankyou.
Dilbert has a very appropriate reason why virus’s spread.
Dilbert has a very appropriate reason why virus’s spread.
I fired up Kristen’s laptop which has AVG on it and discovered that it hadn’t actually updated the virus definitions for a month as for some weird reason I had it set to update at 6.30 am! Seeing as though the laptop is not actually on then it hadn’t updated. A quick search in google and I realised that it is possible to run the AVG auto update by running “c:\program files\grisoft\avg6 \avginet.exe” /norm
Bundle this with sleep.exe saved into the windows directory, pop it into the startup folder and as the laptop is permanently connected to the internet, updates every time the machine is booted up (a bit of a pain if this is more than once a day but the pain is better than the pain of a virus infection)
I noticed on ServerGeek that he has a feed from symantec with the latest news on virus’s that have been discovered and removal tools available. This is useful to monitor the latest virus news and can be semi-customised and embedded into your own pages. For the moment I’ve got the feed installed at /virus with nothing else there. However I’d like to customise MovableType’s category archives so that I have the alerts on the left and my Virus posts on the right of the page. That way I have all my anti-virus information in one place…….
I’m finding more and more things that I want to do with MT – just need the time to do it – but that is what Bank Holiday Weekends are for 🙂
After the 170odd emails that we received yesterday I would have thought we’d have had quite a few today come into the office….instead we’ve had about 6. Thats really weird how the virus has basically stopped overnight….(not that I’m complaining btw!)
Mcafee have an interesting page that tells you how much hacking/virus activity has come from the network you are on. The results from my ip at home tells me that 4 ip address’s have been detected – that probably means 4 people in the town I live in and use Pipex are/were infected.
Mcafee have an interesting page that tells you how much hacking/virus activity has come from the network you are on. The results from my ip at home tells me that 4 ip address’s have been detected – that probably means 4 people in the town I live in and use Pipex are/were infected.