Marcus
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| posted on 7/10/02 at 07:55 PM |
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Roland
Chaps, Roland's PC has caught a particularly nasty virus which has trashed his two hard drives, consequently, there will be no web site update for
September (or possibly October aswell). Still don't know which virus it was, virus checker was updated days before but it still got through. It
started by opening every folder on his PC and then screwed with the fonts, then locked up completely!
PC is in the process of being remastered, but any hints as to what hit it gratefully received!!
Marcus
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chrisg
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| posted on 7/10/02 at 09:10 PM |
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I don't think it is a virus, I think it's the wrath of god, which is what you get when you steal bits of my website!!!!! 
Seriously, I've no ideas on which virus it is, but I hope he gets it sorted soon.
Cheers
Chris
Note to all: I really don't know when to leave well alone. I tried to get clever with the mods, then when they gave me a lifeline to see the
error of my ways, I tried to incite more trouble via u2u. So now I'm banned, never to return again. They should have done it years ago!
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bob
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| posted on 7/10/02 at 09:11 PM |
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There is a real nasty one doing the rounds,i think its called "bug bear" or something like that.
It eats the PC inside out and leaves you with nout, nothing, bugger all,i think that translates to zero for most of the country starting in the north
all the way down to bugger all in brighton.
As you can tell i've had beer 
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paulbeyer
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| posted on 7/10/02 at 09:26 PM |
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Got Bug Bear last Friday and spent all weekend rebuilding my PC. I managed to discover it before it had wiped everything so I managed to save a few
bits but it completely buggered my OS. Worst thing was it infected format.com so I couldn't even reformat my hard drive. 
Sorted it in the end though. 
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MrFluffy
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*looks at his worm patched linux box* What is a virus again? ,oh its one of them microsoft thingys..
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 8/10/02 at 08:49 AM |
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I must admit that I've now de-activated all communications links on the Windows bit of my dual-boot PC (although I still run the AVG virus checker
and ZoneAlarm on the PC)
All my e-mail and web access is done through Linux.
rgds,
David
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Dazza
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| posted on 8/10/02 at 09:00 AM |
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i had bug bear the other day, luckily my noton antivirus spotted it, and told me to download a file from the site, and howw to delete the virus. so
after a mild heart attack, it was deleted, seems to have done no lasting damage. I HOPE!
fuckit
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interestedparty
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| posted on 8/10/02 at 09:55 AM |
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*looks at his worm patched linux box* What is a virus again? ,oh its one of them microsoft thingys..
Don't feel left out, as soon as there are enough people running Linux systems to make it worth their while then the nasty tw*ts who write viruses
will start targeting them as well
John
As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,
I've got a little list-- I've got a little list
Of society offenders who might well be underground,
And who never would be missed-- who never would be missed!
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Findlay234
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| posted on 8/10/02 at 10:34 AM |
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well, no not actually, im not on the side of the linux boys cause im a win-doze user myself,
the fact of it is theres a load of flaws present in the windows system that can be exploited by hackers and viruses. linux doesnt have these or only
has a few and theyre hard to find. its why youve never seen a linux computer crash, just a much tighter package, the only reason people dont use it is
because its hard to get the hang of and not much software is made for it.
cheers
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James
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| posted on 8/10/02 at 11:46 AM |
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One way of telling if it's bug bear is if it ran your printer until it ran out of paper. As happened to a couple of print servers here at work-
wasted about 5 trees worth! 
I tell you, if I ever meet the guy....
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john_s
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| posted on 8/10/02 at 06:07 PM |
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I had bugbear on saturday. Got the gibberish print outs to prove it too!
John.
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John Singleton
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ChrisW
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| posted on 8/10/02 at 07:16 PM |
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quote:
*looks at his worm patched linux box* What is a virus again? ,oh its one of them microsoft thingys..
Watch out for linux.slapper.worm which is going around at the moment. One of my servers was hit with it last week - only just managed to save it. It
exploits a vunerability in OpenSSH through Apache so make sure you've got the up2date packages.
Chris
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