Re: VIRUS ALERT     VIRUS ALERT     VIRUS ALERT

> ALL:  This just happened:  A friend's teenaged son used one of those free On
> Line America disks (on his parents business computer) to go online and play
> games and download software.  HE BROUGHT IN A VIRUS THAT ATTACKS ANY FLOPPY
> DRIVE OPERATION!
> I called America On Line and spoke with a tech.  He said that THEY use a
> virus scanning on all software that passes through them, but, they are a
> gateway to the INTERNET and THEY don't use virus scanning.
> I don't know what to think.  The first couple of times a person uses a floppy
> operation such as copy, backup, or format, it works, and sometimes it works
> the second time, the third floppy operation enforces the virus.  The message
> on all floppy operations is:
> Can't format (or copy or backup) disk is write protected.
> So, BEWARE!  Use a good virus scanning program on your computer before you go
> online to ANYWHERE!!
> May all your floppies live happily ever after

Umm.. could it be that it might have been resident already?!?!?
I have also heard how McAfee isn't all that great.  I saw a demo on this at a
pc expo where what McAfee does is extract files and while it's scanning, a
viri would ride piggy-back till it's done scanning. .then when you run that
exe file. whammo.. you've been hit.  He showed all the different aspects of
it.  Even loaded in a few viri.   Of course he was selling a much better
product.. the only thing is.. one would have to extract every compressed file
manually and then scan them.   But good luck to everyone.  Btw, I am getting
FREE AOL cd's.  Are they infected as well?  Not that I ever plan on signing
on with them.  But just curious.


      Thanx

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