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Well I finally got infected last night. There is a new version of the LovSan virus out there. It got past the patch and my firewall. It corrupted a number of files on my system, and I'm really p***ed off, I'm going to have to spend the whole morning fixing my machine by the looks of things.
I got this virus whilst either downloading from M$ (the flight simulators program, 5 parts, took a while!), or whilst playing online with Smoke2much.
Watch yourselves.

Ozzy

Ozzy!!!

Pete my anti-virus is up-to-date. This is a new variant, it got in through a back door. It seems the culprit is the M$ patch, which lets it in!
Once in my system caught it. It only infected one file (which I've deleted), but for some reason it corrupted a load of other stuff! Now also deleted for safeties sake.
It looks like the M$ website is hosting the ****ing thing! I've sent them an email. I've also notified Will.
All I can say is thank goodness my anti-virus software updates every day for new viruses.

Mark

Ozzy. If what you say is true this is a tad worrying. Are you guys on WinXP? I understand this particular virus doesn't affect Win98/Me.

PS. Seems you're correct. This might interest you. http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/security/0,39001150,39146647,00.htm

Micros***! Thanks for the link Doug, bit of a case of closing the door after the horse has bolted, but there you go
I'm running XP Pro, and I'm slowly getting the system back together. A couple of other people I know got it, but they didn't get the file corruption problem I did, so that might be entirely unrelated.
Its so annoying. Fortunately my anti-virus software could stop it. Ah well back to re-installing

Cheers
Mark

.... this particular virus doesn't affect Win98/Me....

Hi Hagar... ...!!!
..Shhhh!
Maybe it's only you and me, and perhaps a few others who are still using our lovely old Win '98, that we are not getting these problems... ...!
Maybe the virus toe-rags out there think that no-one is still using '98 any more... ...!
..only the hi-tech, money-no-object, my-system-is-better-than-yours, Windows XP Pro users, who deserve to be zapped... ... ... ...!

Win '98 users....heads down lads... ...!

LOL...LOL...LOL...!

Cheers all... ...!
Paul.
(England).

P.S. ...Norton Rules... ...!

heads down asses up more like Mr fozzer just shined my shoe up and someone needs a good backside kicking, LOL:) i got the same thing ozzy. i believe gates is next in line for an ass whooping

heads down asses up more like Mr fozzer just shined my shoe up and someone needs a good backside kicking, LOL:) i got the same thing ozzy. i believe gates is next in line for an ass whooping

Careful Craig. You might lose that shiny shoe - or break your leg.  ::)

Maybe the virus toe-rags out there think that no-one is still using '98 any more... ...!

Foz. My local Inland Revenue office is still using Win95. Shame.