VIRUS WARNING

[myz_lilith]

Think most people have heard about this by now but just in case: there's a nice new virus doing the rounds - there is a description involving lots of technical gubbins like "worm" and "open ports" which if I try to remember I will get horribly hirribly wrong, but luckily it can be found in a far more coherent form here

In particular it exploits a weakness in Windows XP and NT. A patch is available and a link to it can be found here

Comments

[angelwars.livejournal.com]

ahem.. i bring a geek joke of mac a riffic prepotions....


"mac users do it with out falling over"


i thank you...
yeah so im not effected by it... and you all laughed when i brought a mac! ha! you coming t' pub quiz?

[myz-lilith.livejournal.com]

I'm doing aquarobics at half 8, but I shall be heading down afterwards, and Kris will be there for the whole thing.

[angelwars.livejournal.com]

sorry to spoil your night but i shall also be in attendance! woo!

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

I thought it could hit any system with the Direct X bug in the midi stack?

[myz-lilith.livejournal.com]

I refer you to my previous warning about my abilities to communicate technical things in the appropriate terms... I now don't even bother to try but just point people towards the approprizte info so they can pick out for themselves the bits that are important ;-)

To be fair, the guy who passed on the info did say it would affect other Windows systems, but as the patch he linked to was the XP one I thought it was better just to limit my post to match my very limited knowledge rather than send people off on wild goose chases...

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think the best place may be pointing people at the MS website. Covers all cases then.

[angelwars.livejournal.com]

ahem.. speaking with inteligence inside the microsoft camp... the developers didnt know it was going to happen, the bosses did as did the "watchers" but not the developers..comunication inside micro$oft is not a strong point