'Redesi' worm reformats hard drives

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'Redesi' worm reformats hard drives :|

A worm disguising itself as a security patch for Microsoft products
will in fact reformat the victim's C: drive.

The Redesi worm spreads by e-mail under a number of guises,
and is set to trigger on November 11, 2001.

But not all PCs are vulnerable to the worst of its effects,
and there is an easy way to stop the damage.

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dman

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<< there is an easy way to stop the damage >>


Just don't download or run programs from untrusted sources.
 

Pastore

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fyi...

<< PCs that run Windows 2000 and Windows XP are immune from this formatting, since these versions of Microsoft's operating system do not use autoexec.bat. >>