Re: virus

Hi Geoff,

I went passed you house at 3am this morning. I was the one on the
Goldwing doing 110mph with Patsy Cline on the stereo.

Terry

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com, "Geoff Bullough"
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> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 7:13 PM
> Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Digest Number 607
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> Hi,
>
> Geoff Bullough, Bolton, Manchester, UK
> I've just recently joined the group and so have spent about 8 hours

reading

> everything you've written and checking out links you mentioned. I

suppose

> by US standards Tony Jeffree, Ian Wright and I are practically

neighbours.

>
> I always keep my Windows 98 and Norton Antivirus updated regularly,

but

> until I got Ian's e-mail I had Windows Scripting Host enabled. I've

now gone

> into settings, Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Windows Setup,
> Accessories and unticked Windows Scripting Host. I updated my

Norton

> Antivirus and ran it on my machine. It found nothing wrong, but

when I

> checked its virus encyclopedia it doesn't seem to list Kakworm, so

I checked

> out the Norton site and followed their instructions for editing out

this

> virus. Powered up in DOS and running Edit, I couldn't find any

sign of

> virus activity, so I guess I'm okay, despite my 8 hours of

downloading.

>
> Regards,
> Geoff
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>
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>

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> >
> > Message: 20
> > Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 18:44:51 +0100
> > From: "Ian Wright" <Ian@i...>
> > Subject: virus
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Someone today has kindly sent me a copy of the Kakworm virus.

Fortunately,

> > as I have the Microsoft scripting gizmo turned off it didn't

manage to

> > infect my system but, as the only mail I got today was from this

group and

> > one other, it is a distinct possibility that someone out there

has it.

> >
> > Can I suggest that everyone checks their machines for the

presence of

> files
> > with the .kak and .hta extension - If you find any, you have the

virus and

> > need to go to
> > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms99-032.asp

and get

> the
> > IE patch and also look at
> > http://www.symantec.com/avcentre/venc/data/wscript.kakworm.html ,

if this

> > link doesn't work you can just search the site for Kakworm
> >
> > I'm now bombproof against this type of virus - are you?
> >
> > Ian
> >
> > _________
> >
> > Ian W. Wright
> > Sheffield UK
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