Guest guest Posted November 27, 2001 Report Share Posted November 27, 2001 Thanks Sam, Now, can you translate this into non-computer-techie language.. what do I need to do to avoid this? Just not open any mail that has the prompt to " Take a look at the attachment " ? The Avenging Angel samncraig@... wrote: > McAfee.com has received an increasing number of reports from home > users with a new variant of Badtrans, referred to as Badtrans.b. > AVERT has raised the Risk Assessment on this variant of > W32/Badtrans@MM to HIGH RISK FOR CONSUMERS. > > VirusScan and other McAfee products with DAT files 4172 and higher > are protected from this variant. > > W32/Badtrans@MM is a mass-mailing worm that drops a remote-access > Trojan. The virus arrives via the Microsoft Outlook email program and > attempts to send itself by replying to unread email messages. > > The email may contain the text " Take a look to the attachment " in the > message body and will contain an attachment that is 13,312 bytes in > size. The attachment name is created in three sections, for example, > card.doc.pif. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 27, 2001 Report Share Posted November 27, 2001 Thanks Sam, Now, can you translate this into non-computer-techie language.. what do I need to do to avoid this? Just not open any mail that has the prompt to " Take a look at the attachment " ? The Avenging Angel samncraig@... wrote: > McAfee.com has received an increasing number of reports from home > users with a new variant of Badtrans, referred to as Badtrans.b. > AVERT has raised the Risk Assessment on this variant of > W32/Badtrans@MM to HIGH RISK FOR CONSUMERS. > > VirusScan and other McAfee products with DAT files 4172 and higher > are protected from this variant. > > W32/Badtrans@MM is a mass-mailing worm that drops a remote-access > Trojan. The virus arrives via the Microsoft Outlook email program and > attempts to send itself by replying to unread email messages. > > The email may contain the text " Take a look to the attachment " in the > message body and will contain an attachment that is 13,312 bytes in > size. The attachment name is created in three sections, for example, > card.doc.pif. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Guess I'll have to turn my computer off tomorrow because of that CIH virus. The news said it made [The ] (is that right?) virus look like nothing. I dont trust my antivirus program to be up to date and am not sure how to download another one for tomorrow, so its off for me, darn it:((( California Carol** HUGS:) Carol^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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