RE: CSFwd: [healthfraud] Computer Viruses

2001-10-05 Thread James Osbourne, Holmes
Nah.urban legend. The network is totally safe, easily as safe as flying. James-Osbourne: Holmes -Original Message- From: rogalt...@aol.com [mailto:rogalt...@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 2:01 PM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Cc: Rosa Altman Subject: CSFwd: [healthfraud]

RE: CSFwd: [healthfraud] Computer Viruses

2001-10-03 Thread Quietcove
Yes, it is true that if you visit a hostile site that you can have a virus/trojan uploaded to your system using vbscripting or java. There are various patches available from MS. Also you can re-name wscript.exe to wscript.old in your windows dir or winnt\system32 dir for win2k\NT users. This may

Re: CSFwd: [healthfraud] Computer Viruses

2001-10-03 Thread A.V.R.A.
Yes Roger, it is true and has been for some time. As far as I know, every single web-based virus and e-mail based viruses that use active X controls and loopholes in the windows explorer program, can be fixed by downloading the patch directly from microsoft. When one stumbles upon these kind