As of April 12, 2007, Symantec Security Response is monitoring a massive surge of email spam containing the threat Trojan.Peacomm (also known as the Storm Trojan). This spam campaign is one of the largest identified in recent months. This threat was originally discovered in January 2007 but has been repackaged in this particular spam surge.
Trojan.Peacomm spreading using "worm alerts"
Trojan.Peacomm is spreading using email messages with subject lines like "Worm Activity Detected!" and "Worm Alert!". Ensure that antivirus software is up-to-date and avoid opening unstrusted email.
Our inside correspondent at "Dog-Byte Magazine,"
Professor Ralph J. Dawg, advises that you'all out there in VD-LAND immediately check yer AV program for latest updates!
...we now return ye to yer regularily scheduled programming...
posted on April 14, 2007 02:47:44 AMWARNING! Your computer is infected with a virus. This virus could be transmitted to you, and you will die within 24 hours.
Please forward this email to everybody you know, then smash your computer with a sledgehammer. NOTE: you must forward the email BEFORE smashing the computer, not after.
posted on April 14, 2007 10:02:52 AM
If, more than a decade after PC viruses became widely publicized, you are still reading your email on a PC, you are obviously such a slow learner that you would never notice if your pants were on fire.
Really, people. What does it take for you to learn? A twenty-ton meteorite crashing through your roof?
Even Walter Mossberg, respected technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal, says skip Windows Vista and all its craplets. Get a Macintosh instead.
posted on April 14, 2007 10:38:11 AM
Sadly, most folks in this dimension have NOT yet attained yer status of Neitschian SUPERIOR BEING and use WINDOZE XP as their operating systems...
If Crapple ever attained a market share greater than 3% of mainly artsy-fartsey snobs, then their products would then garner the attention of virus writers, not to mention, CONSUMERS...
But, for the 97% of us lowly beings of inferior intellect and moral character who use PCs, it is important to keep one's virus definitions up to date...
posted on April 14, 2007 10:53:05 AM
Sadly, most folks in this dimension have NOT yet attained yer status of Neitschian SUPERIOR BEING and use WINDOZE XP as their operating systems...
OMG -- Tom/Ralphie you guys would be superb
comic writers. Although your line was hilarious it is OHhhhhhhhhhh so fitting and true .
Thanks for the laff
posted on April 14, 2007 02:03:03 PM
I have windows vista with both Norton and MacAfee. Signed, another lowly being of inferior intellect
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ya got classic confused here.A while ago you wrote the below statement in another thread regarding Macs.From what I could tell,you werent to happy with them,but you did spend $2100 for a Mac laptop.
"Every time this topic comes up there are a half-dozen Mac addicts chiming in about how fabulous their computers are. Well, I'll tell you. 9 of my Macs are unplugged and idle because of various problems, mostly incompatibility between the OS they can run and the version of application software they'd need to run in order to be useful.
Apple has a horrendous record of quickly obsoleting their computers."
Then today you write this:
"If, more than a decade after PC viruses became widely publicized, you are still reading your email on a PC, you are obviously such a slow learner that you would never notice if your pants were on fire.
Really, people. What does it take for you to learn? A twenty-ton meteorite crashing through your roof?
Even Walter Mossberg, respected technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal, says skip Windows Vista and all its craplets. Get a Macintosh instead.
I have both. But I'd never use the PC for email."
In one thread you stated you have 9 macs you dont use because of the various problems-and now you're telling everyone to get Mac.I know one thing-"classic" aint spending $2100 to read his email......I just dont have that many friends.
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posted on April 14, 2007 07:48:22 PM
Every morning a group of about 10 of us meet at a coffee shop. One of the group has his toast and coffee quietly, and takes in the conversations.
When he's about ready to leave, he makes some controversial statement, and walks out with a smile on his face. Usually upsets the group to a point where they forget what they were talking about and take up sides on his statement.
Remind you of anybody?
posted on April 14, 2007 08:03:04 PM
I can't afford a MAC so I seldom read my email. Option #3. Edited to add: Did call my Mom and told her not to open any emails (her Norton's has expired). Thanks, Tom
[ edited by pixiamom on Apr 14, 2007 08:35 PM ]
posted on April 15, 2007 04:15:42 AM
"deur1
posted on April 14, 2007 10:47:09 AM I know Mac -- the only Apple (besides occasionally gnawing an apple from the fruit section),I use now is an Ipod.
I LUV the ease of a PC
Now, back to PC's- which virus program do you PCers use? I use Norton, I used to use the fee AVG. I cannot say that one is better than the other.
What do you guys recommend?"
deur1-I had a problem/virus 6 months ago that I couldnt get rid of.I had to take it to the shop near where I live.To begin with Im very computer illiterate.So when the guy looked at it,he said Norton was actually the problem.
What he did was uninstall the Norton and installed the AVG,and "Ad-ware SE personal" these are free.I already had spybot,and he told me thats all I needed.I was hesitant to hook this thing up to the internet when I got home,but 6 months later I still dont have any problems.The AVG does an update automatically everyday.The adware I do once a week,as the spybot-defrag and scandisk.I do this all for free,and not paying fees for the Norton/Macfee programs.
[ edited by classicrock000 on Apr 15, 2007 04:18 AM ]
Didja happen to see this in the links I posted (from PC MAG):
"At 2:30 p.m. I uploaded the attachment to Virustotal.com, which uses many different antivirus programs to scan uploads. Of 31 programs, only 4--ClamAV, eSafe, Kaspersky, and Symantec--reported a virus."
I've used NORTON for past 4 yrs & have been very happy. I used to use TREND PC-CILLAN, but, when XP first came out, there was a TREND bug, so I switched...NEVER EVER USE any products from CRAPAFEE -- they totally...SUCK!
I've used computers since 1981 (even had a CRAPPLE IIc in 1985 -- overpriced $2500 piece of crapple)& have NEVER gotten a virus of any sort, ever...
Ralphie loves to stroll thru Daddy's PC JUNKYARD of his younger days starting in 1981 with:
ATARI 400 ATARI 800 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS TI-? ADAM from COLECOVISION TANDY COLOR PC from RADIO SHACK COMMODORE-64 CRAPPLE IIc
that was 1985 & I gave up until 1998 when I bought my first GATEWAY with WINDOZE-98
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[ edited by tomwiii on Apr 15, 2007 07:47 AM ]
posted on April 15, 2007 08:07:00 AM
Tom-I know ou swear by Norton and it is supposed to be good,but for now as long as I dont have a problem,I not going to buy another one.Hey thanks for the trip down mamory lane.
I think my first computer was a Commodore"pet"
I remember even before the first floppys came out,I had to load a game with a tape machine.It looked like a small audio cassette machine.It took me 20 minutes to download a war game I had..what a pain in the butt.
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posted on April 15, 2007 08:22:15 AM
classicrock000
thanks. I MEANT I ised to use the FREE AVG but left out ther R.
I switched to Norton cuz I was thinking it may be safer .
I never had a problem with the FREE AVG though.
It cost about $40 bucks a year on each PC for Norton
posted on April 15, 2007 08:24:12 AM"...I had to load a game with a tape machine.It looked like a small audio cassette machine."
It WAS a small audio cassette machine!
Oi! Balancing one's checkbook & then "saving" the results on a cassette tape! Was GREAT, except for the fact that ya could never again find the beginning of the data on the stupid TAPE!
OTOH: Space Invaders on the ATARI 800 was very KEWL!
posted on April 15, 2007 08:25:11 AM
Every morning a group of about 10 of us meet at a coffee shop. One of the group has his toast and coffee quietly, and takes in the conversations.
When he's about ready to leave, he makes some controversial statement, and walks out with a smile on his face. Usually upsets the group to a point where they forget what they were talking about and take up sides on his statement.
Remind you of anybody?
posted on April 15, 2007 09:04:42 AM
Since we're strolling down memory lane - in high school (late sixties), my class timeshared a UNIVAC computer with Pillsbury. We used punch cards for input. In college I learned Assembly, COBOL and RPG. I bought my first home computer in 1980 - hooked up to the TV - it sucked as a word processor- you could get maybe a sentence to display on the screen at one time in a HUGE font but you could play a mean game of Pong on it. About the same time, bought my brother an Adam for his grad school - that worked great as a word processor. Found an early IBM word processor with mag cards at auction in 1985, thought that was pretty cool. I started selling VMS and Unix-based software (on really big floppy disks) about that time. Anyone else remember the debate - which is a better PC OS - CPM or PC-DOS? I waited to buy a PC until they had systems that would support the software I sold. That would be about 1988? - the first PC set me back $5000. I remember the huge dislike I had for windows when it first came out - having to use a mouse - ugh. Since then, I've accumulated a garage full of broken, outdated equipment I'm waiting to recycle.
posted on April 15, 2007 09:19:07 AM
Joined Compuserve in 1988 - but that was for my ex's benefit - I saw little future in it. Edited to add: I remember the tape back-up thingy. Had a small business then and ex had to back up 5-6 computers every night. It was a huge timesaver compared to backing up on floppies
[ edited by pixiamom on Apr 15, 2007 10:36 AM ]
posted on April 15, 2007 11:01:28 AM
One of my favorite "controversial" statements was the one about the P.O. having it in their regulations that they would and could limit you on the amount of packages you could mail, if the P.O. was crowded! Meow said she would get back with us as soon as she had proof and then "poof" she never appeared on that thread again! I waited and waited...., I think I even bumped it once so she would remember. Also, when she digs dirt on someone of a personal nature, (Roadsmith knows) that isn't helpful or nice nor is is sarcasm but is just downright mean.
posted on April 15, 2007 11:26:06 AM
deichen: Blessedly, I cannot recall what "dirt" The Girl dug up on me from an early thread--but I do remember how it stung, that she'd stoop to a silly personal attack taken from a thread in which I must have trusted the others who were chatting.
classic: When we were moving from Vegas to Utah, our campus friends had a going-away party for us. They gave him a PET computer, which was state of the art then, and of course he was thrilled. For several years he and our kids played games on it. About 8 years ago we sold it on eBay for pretty good money, and it was hard for him to let go of it--as though it were a real pet!
To all: We've had Norton for many years now and have never been hit with a virus. We run the Norton scan weekly. Knock on wood, I guess.
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posted on April 15, 2007 11:34:42 AM
I use McAffee which is free with Comcast - I don't like the way it slows down my computer when it updates its files - would never pay money for it.
posted on April 15, 2007 12:02:57 PMPROFESSOR RALPHIE'S SECURITY PROTOCOL:
1) We alternate weekly FULL-SYSTEM virus scans as follows ~
EVERY FRIDAY we either do a NORTON on-board scan, or we use a web-based scan, such as HOUSE-CALL by TREND here: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
2) We keep WINDOWS UPDATE on AUTOMATIC mode...
3) We keep WinPatrol Plus running in the background at all times~ The PLUS option costs a ONE-TIME LIFETIME FEE of $20 for all yer computers, so it runs on my DESKTOP and on Ralphie's LAPTOP http://www.winpatrol.com/
ALSO, for strong bones & healthy teeth, please everybody, remember to do a DE-FRAG to yer DISCS often -- we run an ANALYSIS at least every 2 days & DE-FRAG as recommended...
As The KING OF CLICHES (Ralphie) reminds us all: "An ounce of prevention..."
