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Recent virus activity through the roof!!!

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:30 am
by steedvlx
Anybody have a clue as to why I am having to clean 10-50 copies of NETSKY and associated variants off of my servers every day for the last week? They are safely disabled at the time, but sheesh!

My usually quiet F-prot has had its hands full trying to cope with all the crap slinging my way lately. I was just wondering if it was some kind of a spawning season for these things or what.

BTW, what does it do anyway?

Just curious...

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:45 am
by John Cartwright
I'm probably the farthest thing from an expert on visuses, but ever since MSN beta my comp has been flourished with these weird little viruses.
Might be the cause?

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:50 am
by n00b Saibot
Looks like M$ (and its products too) has soft corner for viruses, security threats, bugs etc., etc., etc. :wink:

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 8:43 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
I thought all this would be too obvious to mention :) All you can do is keep the virus scanner and firewall up to date and apply any fixes required...

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 8:52 am
by steedvlx
I never use MSN or any other messaging software. I used the registry hack to disable it on my system.

But, the question is why recently has virus activity spiked so much? I used to go weeks without an alert of any kind. Now, they are daily.

I'm no expert. But, I am paranoid. Something is going on out of the ordinary.

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:21 am
by feyd
it's valentine's week.. the world goes crazy right now.. :)

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:23 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
SHA1 broken, MS announce IE7, viruses stage massive attack against Computers...

Maybe it a prelude to the Apocalypse...:)

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:36 am
by steedvlx
feyd wrote:it's valentine's week.. the world goes crazy right now.. :)
Ahhh. That's right. I forgot about that. I forget about such things living in Asia.

I remember my first big virus scare as a network admin... The 'I LOVE YOU' virus. Ahhh, The memories.