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"MyDoom Virus"

In case anyoen doesn't know, there's a new virus out, called MyDoom, which spreads through Address Books. If anyone knows anything more about it, please post.

It's normally Pictures of some sort. How do I know this, my friends next door neighboor got it and wellhis computer if kuk'ed out.

I got a pop-up yesterday that had Intenet Explorer Security on the title bar, it claimed i had the mydoom virus and that i should click OK to disinfect.

So as you can guess I hit close instead.

I should imagine that my mobo's Dual-bios should protect me from any extensive harm. I don't think i've had a virus before, but a few days ago i had a serious mess-up where my comp wouldn't load the OS. Hence, i had to rely on the 40GB HDD i had safely tucked away in the PC, and a reinstall of everything. What a pain.

Are viruses capable of doing such damage?

sykotic-white-tiger wrote:
> there is a new virus that has been released in the last week, its on
> an e-mailand it downloads itself secretly everytime you log onto the
> internet, its called praise jesus so dont ever open it because it
> will require you to buy a new modem, hardrive and motherboard
>
> (voice of experiance)

Are you serious?

Anyway, most of you are complete fools.

You can't get the virus from opening the email, executing the virus will not give everyone in your address book the virus, it will just send a copy on to them.

If you don't open stupid attachments, then you won't get a virus. People are stupid and that's why these things are so bad.

The blaster worm you couldn't protect against but this one is just people being stupid.

Icarus wrote:
> Just get a virus checker (they're free so just download it) and keep
> it up to date. Is that so hard for you lot?

The Virus might still get through. MyDoom is quite a powerful Virus, you know.

why don't you develop your own compiler that won't let you make malicious code then, Mr. Software Developer? If it's so easy and such a great idea you could make millions!

If you ask me i think that compilers to make the program
should have something built in to them so they cant make malicios code.
im a software developer and you wont beleive how easy it is to make a virus all you need is notepad and a compiler. this must be stopped!!

sykotic-white-tiger wrote:
> there is a new virus that has been released in the last week, its on
> an e-mailand it downloads itself secretly everytime you log onto the
> internet, its called praise jesus so dont ever open it because it
> will require you to buy a new modem, hardrive and motherboard
>
> (voice of experiance)

More like the voice of inexperience if that was your solution to the problem....

Anyway this new worm seems far more prevalent than any other virus. Normally I hardly get any infected email but since about Monday Norton Antivirus has been whacking the things by the bucketful everyday. Luckily I heard about the virus on Monday morning and updated Norton before getting my email... may the creator of this virus be stapped to a gigantic motherboard and be slowly burnt by cd lasers....

You can actually disable ctfmon.exe without any harm. It's only used for detecting additional input devices, such as the touchpad on a laptop.

UrkiE-UK wrote:
> According to microsoft, if you have a process running titled
> ctfmon.dll (NOT ctfmon.exe - that's entirely normal)

Heh, very clever - just glancing at Task Man. and you wouldn't really spot it instantly.

And good old Norton AntiV - updated as soon as I connected to the internet earlier.
Hurrah.