Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Code Red Virus

Okay, I now hear that the virus is a worm, it is present on web sites,
particularly US related ones government ones. It has been written in China
and is targeted at the US government. It will activate tomorrow at 1pm in
the afternoon in the UK, or around 6am in the US. It will only affect
windows 2000 and the newest windows Me, not nt, 98 or 3.1. If you have it
you will see a message when you start your computer that says 'Hacked by the
Chinese. Your computer will help send emails out to government related sites
and search engines. It has not been called a dangerous virus so I don't
think you have to worry about it wiping over your hd. It must be stored on
the HD up until it activates, then it wipes itself until the computer is
turned off so they can't be done for harming people too much if they're
found. Switch off your computer when you see the message then turn it back
on. Connect to the net and double click the internet connection icon in your
toolbar. Close web browsers and wait, watching the connection, to see if
data is being sent out by your machine in excess when it shouldn't be.

John

> Yesterday at 1pm (Or 1am) UK time, remembering we're around 5 - 6 hours
> ahead of the US, a new virus was released in the US called Code Red.

Within

> hours Microsoft had got to work on a patch after recieving thousands of
> emails about it. The virus is designed to cause maximum damage to the
> internet, not really your computer. It waits in your MEMORY, not the disk,
> so all you need do is turn your computer off, wait a few minutes just to

be

> sure, then turn it back on. I don't kno why they person didn't write it to
> store itself on the hard disk. They were worried as the virus spreads very
> easily, I'm not sure how though, probably through email. All the virus

does

> is slow down your internet access. I guess it either does something to the
> modem or tries sending a bunch of pings to things like search engines to
> slow them down as well. Combine a few big servers and target one search
> engine, bombard it with useless junk and you can almost stop it. Combine a
> few hundred thousand or even millions of normal computers and you have

some

> serious stopping power. Anyhow, just thought you might want to know. Since
> the virus waits in the RAM it won't need to install itself I don't think

so

> avoid emails from people you don't know for a while.
>
> John
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