Virus that could wipe out the internet

Greg87 · **Sat Aug 23, 2003 11:20 am Virus that could wipe out the internet**

has this new virus attacked you? And what do you blieve is an approprate course of punishment???

Starbuck · **Sat Aug 23, 2003 11:25 am**

well I have never been attacked by a virus I have recived them but here's a tip. If its someone you don't know don't open it. If it has an attachmen scan it before you open it. Theese simple things could save you!

Josi Rockholt · **Sat Aug 23, 2003 12:04 pm**

one virus I know about is the bullfrog one. It can ruin all of your hard drive.

Arellia · **Sat Aug 23, 2003 1:34 pm**

My mom does eBay so we've gotten it over and over...we just found a program at mailwasher.net that shows you the possible threats before you get into your email. It's been working so far.

Greg87 · **Sat Aug 23, 2003 2:33 pm**

yeah the bullfrog

Saoirse_Granger · **Sat Aug 23, 2003 2:50 pm**

Kinda scary, I got a junk mail that was from someone I knew from school, but wasnt on my contacts, and i opened it, and it had an attatchement but i didn't open the attatchemnt (anno spellin lol), but I later found out it had the virus in it. So I was kinda lucky, but i wouldnt have opened it neway

It's a .scr or .pif file, i think this is the one you're talking about. sobig.F? is the virus i nearly had, it looks through your files and emails itself to every email address on your computer, even ones you never knew were there. But it's ONLY if you OPEN the attatchemnt. Go to www.mcafee.com for more.

Los · **Sat Aug 23, 2003 3:17 pm**

I'm pretty sure its a .pif file. I had the unfortunate blessing of opening it and now I get nearly 100 letters of crap spam every day.

Oh how will I ever delete it???

Kyle Reese · **Sat Aug 23, 2003 4:27 pm**

The only viruses i ever got were off Kazaa and one jerk on AOL sent me one when i was like 6

but so far i haven't been attacked by any serious viruses. The ones on kazaa are always easy to remove

Jeremy · **Sat Aug 23, 2003 4:47 pm**

I always never open files that are sent from someone I don't know, and I they're from someone I don know then I scan them. Although once there was some spy thing. It was on 3 places on the hard drive and everytime you restarted the computer it would reinstall it again in the other places. It took my dad, a computer programmer about 2 hours to get rid of the blasted thing.

Greg87 · **Sun Aug 24, 2003 2:39 am**

Thomas · **Sun Aug 24, 2003 4:24 am**

I just delete all new emails if they're from someone I don't know. I also look at the file size. If it's really high, getting into the 100s or even higher, it's likely to contain a virus.

PrankishSmart · **Sun Aug 24, 2003 7:39 am**

Now days, hotmail scans all attachments for viruses.

I use Symantec Anti Virus Corp 8.0. I am pretty safe

. I am actually going to setup a SAV 8.0 server for my LAN, and all clients will recieve updates from the server

Seven of Nine · **Mon Aug 25, 2003 6:50 am**

I'm surprised... for a week now I've not received the new virus! I only got 12 e-mails containing it, and I just deleted them...

Voy_Girl · **Mon Aug 25, 2003 7:56 am**

Greg87 · **Wed Aug 27, 2003 1:49 pm**

well i get reports alot but it's just obvious by the name!!!!

Theresa · **Wed Aug 27, 2003 1:53 pm**

If it does wipe out the internet, just remember, I LOVED YOU ALL!

Tim McGraw · **Wed Aug 27, 2003 2:18 pm**

August 11th I was on the net and suddenly my computer went on systems shut down I called best buy and they said i have the newiest virus that only window 2000 and xp get luckly my dad got it taken off.

Greg87 · **Fri Aug 29, 2003 5:23 am**

unlucky

LOVE LOVE YOU ALL TOO MAN!!!!