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To: Stock Puppy who wrote (51175)2/16/2006 10:13:23 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (1) of 213177
 
>>It's not a virus, it's a Trojan (and thus more of a social disease than a virus
since it requires a person to perform unsafe computing)
See the following (if you're of age)<<

SP -

I beg to differ. A Trojan Horse only infects the computer of the person who runs a seemingly harmless program. It does not replicate itself. While this thing does require user interaction on the computers to which it spreads, it's technically a worm because it is self replicating.

How about that? I'd been getting reminders from my Norton Antivirus program that my virus update subscription was about to expire, and I had pretty much decided to just uninstall the program. This is on my desktop computer. I don't even have antivirus software running on my PowerBook.

I guess now I have to pay up and buy it.

FWIW, Symantec says that the number of infections is in the 0 to 49 range.

Here's there info on this threat, including a run down of exactly what happens when the program is executed:

securityresponse.symantec.com

It's interesting that this worm does try to replicate itself, it is badly written, and doesn't always succeed. But because it is so badly written, in can corrupt applications it tries to infect, so that they won't run anymore.

- Allen
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