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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.

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)

According to microsoft, if you have a process running titled ctfmon.dll (NOT ctfmon.exe - that's entirely normal) then you have the virus.

But don't take my word 100%....my incredibly acute memory might be wrong.

I tend to leave automatic updates, because there are some patches and software which you don't need.

By the way, I've received an email with three(!) Mydoom.A worms in each of thefile attachments; that brings my encounter with the worm to 8 now. A lot more thn the Blaster worm.

Icarus wrote:
> Yep, and common sense comes by the bucketload for the public.

Gladly switching on automatic updates and remembering not to hit things with hammers will bypass that limitation.

Yep, and common sense comes by the bucketload for the public.

mcg_highlander wrote:
> In my opinion anything that is free, ie Free antivirus is not going to
> be too good, therefore your going to have to splash teh cash, the 3
> main* anti-virus programs are Norton, McAfee and Pc-cillian.

The free version of AVG is at least as good as these. Stick Zone Alarm on if you've got broadband (though you may have a firewall already in your router), plus keeping up-to-date with your MS updates, and you'll be sorted for zero cost.

There's as many people out there working gratis to produce protection as there are to make the malicious programs in the first place. As long as you use a bit of common sense there is absolutely no need to spend any cash.

Whenever here's a bug, you can update the program so that it will adapt to it if you get attacked: The updates come in thick and fast. Never let me down.

Same for me, as long as Nortons been on I have never had trouble.

Notorious Biggles wrote:
> In various tests, free virus scanners caught as many, in some cases
> more, viruses than Norton or MacAfee.
>
> I like Norton Systemworks, it does do wonders, but I wouldn't buy
> Norton AntiVirus on its own. Not worth it.

Norton Antivirus and Norton Personal Firewall work in tandem perfectly. At least they do for me. :)

But protection, whether it is free or not, is better than none at all.

Notice I didn't say "some protection" - that's because, as NB said, free AV programs are as good as commercial ones in terms of stopping virii.