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[Scuttle]

I just got the loveletter virus. What a wonderful month i'm having computers. Boot Sector is killed, computer is overrun by the win32.weird virus, and now i have loveletter.

Maybe i should copy them all to CD, stick it in and see how long it takes for melt down, or sell it on ebay as the "worlds most deady viruses".

Well, my purchase or Norton has saved me once, let's see if it can cure me again this time.

*Sighs*

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[Pinky]

Good luck, Scuttle! Sounds like quite a run of bad luck with viruses!

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[Scuttle]

I was caught out, i was getting an mp3 from Kazaa and then it said it was infected. Norton made swift work of ir though (20 minutes to eradicate the system of all virus presence on 50gigs of space.)

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[patssle]

bleh, i hate virus scanners

they take up precious cpu cycles

novirusscanner2win

and i still havnt gotten a virus

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[Pinky]

Originally posted by patssle:
they take up precious cpu cycles

That's why you temporarily disable it when you do anything CPU-intensive where ya need those cycles.

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[LordVampyre]

my first question is what are you doing to be getting all of these? How are you getting them? email.. nasty ole warez sites? or what?

Id for sure adjust where I was doing my travels if this is the situation.


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[Scuttle]

I got the win32.weird virus from my bro's machine when i put my HDD in there for a back-up, no idea how he had it. I got loveletter while on Kazaa, from an mp3 (Guns n Roses - Sweet Child o' mine, if you care. ). I thought that i'd be safe with mp3's. Never heard of ANYONE getting a virus from them. Guess i was too lax.


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[jac857]

my moms bank caught the love letter virus on friday becuase some idiot at the one of the affiliate banks down town opened the e-mail & downloaded the attachment thinking someone actually had feelings for her. lol. so since my moms bank is networked with that bank & all the other banks in the area all the computers went haywire. well my mom told me it was a big mess, she said she got the same e-mail like 70 times on her e-mail account & all the other banks computers were getting it too. the only thing they could do was to delete all the e-mails coming in. the guy she talked to said that the loveletter virus was set to send itself around at this time. strange though, i havent gotten it yet

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[m316foley]

Are you 100% positive that the mp3 was the cause of the virus, or just a file that was affected by it. I'm 99.999999999999999999% sure that you CANNOT get a virus from a mp3.

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[Adisharr]

Originally posted by m316foley:
Are you 100% positive that the mp3 was the cause of the virus, or just a file that was affected by it. I'm 99.999999999999999999% sure that you CANNOT get a virus from a mp3.

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. It would need to be executed some way and decoding an MP3 doesn't allow that function.

Hmm if it's possible then I'd sure like to know how..


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dang Scuttle...are you positive that it was an mp3? It might have been something with that extension...never heard of mp3s w/ viruses, but then I guess anything it possible. You've gotta be more careful buddy.

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[jac857]

could've been something like a .vbs, my friend got a virus from one of those once thinking it was an mp3

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[Lithium]

Originally posted by m316foley:
Are you 100% positive that the mp3 was the cause of the virus, or just a file that was affected by it. I'm 99.999999999999999999% sure that you CANNOT get a virus from a mp3.

Yeah, an MP3 is just raw data, nothing is executed from it....just decoded and sent to your soundcard(very simplified) I'd think it's from somewhere else.....maybe it's the "music industry" trying to get back at us for stealing the songs...heh, wouldn't be moral/legal, but very effective



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[Scuttle]

I wasn't getting anything else off Kazaa at the time though, just a few mp3's, then Norton pops up saying it's found the loveletter virus in one of the .dat files in my shared folder (the files are .dat until they finish downloading), i deleted the few that i had (Which were all mp3's at the time) and then scanned the system and it was gone. Tis very very strange...

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[Jonny Baseball]

Well, then in that case it may have been a virus with an .mp3 extension attached to it then. Did you do a general media search or was it for music only, because you might have just caught a bad break this time.

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