Monday, 18 February 2002

Discovered horrors of all horrors two days ago that not just one, but three viruses have in fact infected our office computer!! :O The three guilty parties are the:

WORM_SIRCAM.A – which sends copies of itself to all addresses listed in an infected user's address book (we have more than 1200 addresses!! :O ) and in temporary Internet cached files.

JS_SEEKER.A6 – (what I describe as the embarrassing virus) which changes the Internet Explorer start page of an infected system to connect to a pornographic Website and then adds a link to the Web site in the favorites folder (which explains why our start page changed to a porno page all of a sudden one day! :O and we had a bunch of new kinky links in our favourites folder)

JS_EXCEPTION.GEN – which also changes the infected user's Internet Explorer startup page and is able to mass-mail itself (ahhhhhhhh………. :O)

Spent the morning virus-busting, trying to recall some of the MS-DOS stuff I used to know (thankfully I have a 24-hour personal technical helpdesk) – hee hee.. one of the advantages of having an IT guru as a significant other :p Going to install anti-virus software finally tomorrow..

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