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Who on earth gets computer viruses anyways!?

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The last two rounds of big viruses shut us down for several days each. Our internal address book has something like 6000 entries, so you can imagine the mayhem every time some dumba$$ opened the attachment, went to get some breakfast, and then came back to find that "something was still open". We then had aftershocks when folks on sabbatical or something returned and were sorting through old email messages.

Happens every time there's a big virus amok. Stupid gits just can't resist finding out what's in that cute little attachment.
I had to give my folks the "Big List of Attachment Suffixes You Should Never Open".
 


<< I bet half of the people here who brag they never got a virus.. probably has the CIH virus and dont even know it... >>



LOL, actually that was me not too long ago. Virus? What virus? Then one day my sister was saying to me how her computer had a virus and I was like HTF did she get that. I scanned my hd and found out a single executable had CIH and that she probably got it from me. I never noticed though cause CIH doesn't seem to work too well under NT? 😀
 
i don't get many viruses at all, as far as i know.

i get sent viruses though. I have NAV working for a reason =D

anyway, some people just don't know what they are doing.
 
The only one I know who gets viruses reguarly is my younger brother. He once managed to infect 30+ floppy-disks and two PC's. And who could scan all those floppies, you think? Me, of course :|

But like said before, viruses are an overrated threat. The real threat are stupid PC users who open every attachment they receive.
 
I see viruses all the time. Every couple of weeks I get the &quot;Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs&quot; in my mail box, unopened of course 🙂. I get to clean them up here at work, too. Mostly because I can't kep people from opening attachments. I gave the guy in the office next to mine a copy of AVG anti-virus and he came in the next day and said he had four. Geez, do you open every attachment someone send you? I steer clear of most of the annoyance virii by not using Outlook.

PH
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Viruses...they are definately still around. E-mail is now the most common way. Being on a grad school Outlook address book with thousands of entries allows several viruses a year to appear in my inbox.

It does seem that viruses spread through programs, executables, and such are becoming comparitively less common. I no longer have a virus scanner actively running, but do do a full scan of my system every night.

I know in my time working with computers I have seen many infected disks and my brother's machine completely wiped out by the CIH virus Chernobyl. On April 27 he called me up and said my computer won't boot, luckily his BIOS was not effected.
 
a few have come up on my system.. mainly thru a few cd's my bud brough back from taiwan 🙂 I've gotten stuff thru email, but always caught by norton.
 
The company I worked for last year got viruses all the time - from disks sent to us from a major television manufacturer. These disks contained data files that told us how to make some of the major components of their TV's. Wouldn't you think a major manufacturer would catch this sort of thing before they sent it out to their subcontractors? No! We even complained to them and they still didn't scan the disks they sent us. Now I know why their TV's are crap.
 


<< What are virus scanners.... I havent had a virus since I Got rid of AOL in junior high... &amp; If I had than I Dont know it cause I Dont run a scanner, But I have never had any problems that can be attributed to virus's >>



He's right. I checked. No viruses or Trojans on his computer, especially NetBus. 😉
 
I've NEVER had a virus, and I download some &quot;softwares&quot; from a lot of my &quot;friends&quot; all the time, as well as from sites and FTP servers 🙂. I think they're a waste of space, myself (virus scanners).
 
On my work machine, which has an Outlook address book with nearly 100K worldwide names, there are days when 15-20 infected messages show up. The front end disinfects as they go by, but I still get to delete the attempts.
 
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