Nasty New Virus Variants 1050
Lucidus writes "Numerous journals, such as Mac Daily News and The Motley Fool, are reporting that the latest versions of the Beagle/Bagle virus can infect users' computers whether or not they open an attachment. Apparently, the simple act of selecting the message activates the code. Given that you have to select an E-mail to delete it, how are users supposed to protect themselves from this one?"
ARE THEY SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED? (Score:-1, Funny)
Two Words: (Score:5, Funny)
err...
One word, hyphenated.
I know when I want virus info (Score:4, Funny)
mmmmmmm .... (Score:1, Funny)
well... (Score:5, Funny)
place 2 other junk emails around it, select the top 1, hold shift, select the bottom one.... DELETE.
Re: How about.... (Score:5, Funny)
d. Read your mail on someone else's computer
Re:How about.... (Score:0, Funny)
I'm glad you don't work for us. Go back to the accounting department where you crawled out from.
Re:Generic Rant (Score:5, Funny)
Re:ARE THEY SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Two Words: (Score:5, Funny)
How can you get a 0.1% false negative rate when 30% of spam is getting through?
Lame Post, Lame Articles (Score:5, Funny)
It occurs to me that both of the articles in the post are extremely light on facts. Furthermore, one of them has the rather pithy headline "Five new Windows Bagle virus variants break nasty new ground; Macintosh unaffected". Frankly, I don't care enough about the story to go hunting for news from appropriate sources like Symantec or McAffee, but it would be nice to see /. posters and/or editors go the extra mile to get out there and find information that is slightly higher than tabloid-quality.
Normally, I would bite my tongue on something like this, but it seems pretty obvious that in this case, the underlying theme of the article is "ha ha, isn't Microsoft terrible", which is pretty juvenile and meaningless. Here's a company that provided - in October - a working patch to prevent the flaw that is exploited by this virus. I'd say that's pretty reasonable, given the circumstances.
[Cue flames.]
Re:ARE THEY SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Linux is the solution? I don't buy it. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Switch!!! (Score:5, Funny)
General knowledge... and a whole lot of voodoo! -matthew
Feeling left out. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Two Words: (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Not hard (Score:5, Funny)
There are tons of other options out there that aren't vulnerable, such as Mozilla and Thunderbird.
Thank you for telling me this!! As a Slashdot reader, I never would have known that Microsoft's products suck and far superior open source equivalents exist!
Everything I ever read on Slashdot has been pro-MS propaganda until your brilliant comment escorted me out of the cave of ignorance to the enlightened world above!
My eternal thanks.
Re:well... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:protecting from viruses (Score:3, Funny)
It's astonishing that you can do anything useful in it, let alone write a virus in it.
Re:Two Words: (Score:4, Funny)
Who claimed they were blocking all the spam? Obviously they intentionally allow about 29.9% of the spam on average.
Re:Wow, people love to blame Outlook. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:protecting from viruses (Score:5, Funny)
Perhaps it's really only "full power" in the sense that it's given the power to clobber your stuff. To me it brings to mind a visual of a child being handed a flamethrower. Sure, he can use it, but shouldn't such things be restricted to adults?
It,s too bad.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Switch!!! (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8291 [securityfocus.com]
Re:Linux is the solution? I don't buy it. (Score:5, Funny)
No idea. An unfortunately MacOS X is also well known for it's extreme complexity and difficulty to use.
Jedidiah.
for the ultimate in virus protection... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Switch!!! (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe you do...
By strip all executables... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:protecting from viruses (Score:5, Funny)
No, I don't really remember those days. I used a Mac.
--Richard
Re:protecting from viruses (Score:5, Funny)
I got some nice swamp land in Florida for you if you're interested.
Re:Simple... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:protecting from viruses (Score:5, Funny)
Virii virii virii!
Re:protecting from viruses (Score:1, Funny)
Wine compatibility? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:By strip all executables... (Score:2, Funny)
Easy (Score:3, Funny)
Easy, I'll just select and delete it really fast.
-Colin [colingregorypalmer.net]
Re:protecting from viruses (Score:1, Funny)
Given how clunky MacOS was (before OS X, which is rather good), I assume the reason you don't remember those days is that you've blotted out the horror?
Re:protecting from viruses (Score:3, Funny)
Sounds like it's working normally then. I'd get some sleep if I were you.
Re:Simple... (Score:3, Funny)
Stop that crap right now! People that can use there head...neh, their brain, have no place on slashdot! Now, get the hell out of here!
Don't worry, the guy you're replying to is probably a closet Win users.
Cheers!
Re:Simple... (Score:4, Funny)
Having users run as root / administrator all the time is a major issue for any OS, and our admin spends a good portion of his time fixing issues that ultimately stem from a dumb user doing something stupid.
My favorite:
We had a user, we'll call her T.
T called out admin three or four times a day. Every time a dialog box came up she would call for help. This included calls every time IE couldn't find a web site. Finally he told her to stop calling for minor problems, and not to call for trivial issues anymore.
The first dialog she ignores is the Norton Antivirus error message telling her that she's opening an infected attachment.
And thus a new virus hits our network.
Re:Simple... (Score:2, Funny)
Lucky you, I just checked and I'm infected with Outlook sure enough!
Re:Simple... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Simple... (Score:5, Funny)
And that's why I've always had the Preview pain switched off.
That's such an apt mis-spelling.
Re:Simple... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:By strip all executables... (Score:3, Funny)