I've been WORMED!!!

“My home machine had been infected with the SirC32 worm which is making its rounds again. People, be especially diligent in downloading any attached files which you are not expecting. Just thought I'd give a "heads-up."”

“I have seen more virus/worms/trojan trying to attack my machine in the last three months than in the last three years.

Bin Laden has hacker-terrorists.

:)”

“i thought that this thread was about some trail talk girl going on a date!!! LOL!!!!”

“My firewall program has been loggin on average of 250-300 attacks a day on my ports. It's crazy, I've been told it probalby is from that virus having infected servers searching for more targets. Whatever it is, it's annoying.”

“i thought Sarabelle went to the vet.”

“I thought this was going to be a thread by sarabelle.”

“Sarabelle is d'bomb.. she is welcome to go hiking with me anytime.

NOTE: Do I need to stop using that phrase?”

“My office network was shut down for a few days with the Nimbus virus that's been going around this week. It was pretty bad. Fortunatly, we're back up and running.”

“Very good, free firewall: http://www.zonealarm.com

Norton for virus protection”

“Nimba has gotten the computers at work here, too. What's the point of having virus protection if you don't keep it updated?”

“sklakaz: As Tom Clancy reported in NetForce, keeping virus protection updated is nearly impossible.”

“Wow!

39 attacks on my firewall in the last 4 hours!


A friend of mine is convinced that the anti-virus software makers commision people to write viruses.”

“It's the Nimda virus...backwards for admin. It's not Nimbus or Nimba.”

“A-HAH!

Only the author would be so concerned that people get the name right!”

“durn admins.

Have virus populations truly gone geometric yet?”

“Me? I don't know anything about computer viruses...No Sir...not me....

What's that you say? Intrusion Detection...what is that? Hacking? I used a hack saw once does that count?

Nope, don't be pointin' yer finger over here.... Ingenious, that Nimda...spreads quickly via 3 methods. Of course, it's only using vulnerabilities that sys admins should have long sinced fixed with patches. Hmmmmm...think the author of the virus was trying to say something about incompetent admins out there? I really don't have any idea...not me....nope...nosiree...

;-)”

“sorry skiracer, typo on my part.”

“TownDawg, I was referring to our cis dept at work. When I called them to report the virus, they said they were waiting to be sent the update for it. They stopped subscribing to the updating service because they thought it was an unnecessary expense. Well, the entire network has been down all but a few hours for an entire week now. You tell me, did they save any money?”

“I've had that virus twice. It stinks. Now I am more cautious.

I updated McAfee yesterday to protect against the Nimda virus and my computer wouldn't reboot. I have boot step-by-step and skip the virus scan. What's with that?

I have gotten about a dozen infected messages the past four days from two or three different viruses.”

“My Norton Anti-virus sends me a new uddate almost everyday automaticlly.
I wonder if the people at Norton make up viruses and send 'em out to get business?”

“A friend of mine is convinced that the anti-virus software makers commision people to write viruses.

-Violin
1:44:09 PM
9/21/01”

“I believe it.”

“There are enough hackers, kiddie hackers and hacker wannabe's that will keep anti-virus software companies in business for a very long time. There's black hats, white hats and gray hats.”