COMPUTER VIRUS ALERTS
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We will periodically post here information and alerts about newly discovered viruses, as well as
ways to detect them and defend your system against them.
Most of the information is supplied by
Gerard Mannig - a professional virus consultant, while additional info will be supplied by
PCS from CIAC bulletins and other sources.
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- Macro.PPoint.Attach
The first virus to infect Microsoft PowerPoint presentation files was identified at the
beginning of December 1998.
- WORD 97 - Footprint Macro Virus
A new word 97 macro virus has been detected at a DOE site and is known to have
been in documents sent to other sites. It is not yet detected by most antivirus tools.
- Internet Cookies
The popular rumors about web cookies describe them as programs that can scan
your hard drive and gather information about you: passwords, credit card numbers and more.
What are these cookies and what can they really do to your machine?
- AOL4FREE -- Trojan Horse
AOL4FREE is A Trojan Horse program called that deletes all files on a hard drive.
It is being circulated on the Internet.
NOTE: This message is different from the AOL4FREE hoax message.
- Macro virus transmitted by Microsoft Mail
The Good Times email virus may have been a hoax, but this is the first real MS-Word macro virus, spreading via Microsoft Mail
- BLISS - THE FIRST LINUX BASED VIRUSES
Eugene KASPERSKY, author of AVP ( AntiVIRAL toolkit PRO ) has isolated and studied the 2 first LINUX-based viruses.
- DAVID.EXE and DAVID7.EXE
Do you know who your modem is calling ?!
- INTERNET HOAXES
PKZ300, Irina, Good Times, Deeyenda, Ghost
What are they ? Why do they exist ? Do we need to fear them ???
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