For what it's worth, an absolutely excellent virus purge program is F-Prot, available from Frisk Software International at:
http://www.f-prot.com/f-prot/download/ The DOS version is FREE and supported with very frequent (almost weekly) virus signature file updates. It runs just fine in a DOS window on WindowsNT, 2000, XP, 95 and 98. I have used it several times to eliminate viruses my son managed to get, and once to locate and purge a neighbor's computer of a virus that McAfee was unable to disinfect. Bob Wilson TIR Systems Ltd. Vancouver. -----Original Message----- From: Douglas C. Smith [mailto:d...@emcesd.com] Sent: April 24, 2002 10:33 AM To: Chris Chileshe Cc: 'Bill Ellingford'; emc-p...@ieee.org Subject: Re: A very nice game Hi Chris and the Gang, It was probably a particularly nasty one called W32/Klez.h@MM which I have received through other channels several times lately. It is bad enough that if you actually get infected (McAfee will prevent this if your DAT files are reasonably new) you have to go into DOS and follow steps outlined my McAfee to get rid of it as it disables virus scanners. It appears to exploit an incorrect MIME header which causes IE to do some nasty things to your computer automatically by just opening or previewing the message. MAC's and PC's with Netscape Mail do not seem to be infected. I opened the letter in Netscape Messenger and did not get either a warning message or an infection. A URL on McAfee about this is: http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99455 One way to help avoid this type of thing is not to open email larger than a few tens (a long text message) of kB without knowing before who sent it and why. Long messages can harbor viruses. Doug Chris Chileshe wrote: > > Bill, > > Do we know which virus it was? > > Regards > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Ellingford [SMTP:bill.ellingf...@motion-media.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:37 PM > To: 'jmw'; emc-p...@ieee.org > Subject: RE: A very nice game > Importance: High > > URGENT > Please be aware that the above E-mail to the EMC group contained a virus. > Fortunately our system removed it from the message. > Bill Ellingford > > -----Original Message----- > From: jmw [mailto:j...@jmwa.demon.co.uk] > Sent: 24 April 2002 22:59 > To: emc-p...@ieee.org > Subject: A very nice game > > ------------------ Virus Warning Message (on gemini2) > > setup.exe is removed from here because it contains a virus. > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > * > > ------------------------------------------- > This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety > Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. > > Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ > > To cancel your subscription, send mail to: > majord...@ieee.org > with the single line: > unsubscribe emc-pstc > > For help, send mail to the list administrators: > Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com > Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com > > For policy questions, send mail to: > Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org > Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org > > All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: > http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ > Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list" > > ________________________________________________________________________ > This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. 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