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Stages virus hits hard here
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Visual FoxPro
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>>You know I posted news of this virus yesterday, so you should have read it!<g>
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>Don't blame me, I had updated my Norton AV the night before :)
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>Seriously, I called LAN central very early yesterday to ask about our coverage, and they told me not to worry about it, that we were completely covered by McAfee. They had decided to not even post an alert. Then, the McAfee logon update malfunctioned, but apparently on one in LAN tested it to verify it was working. (major duh!)
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>Bad decisions! There are heads rolling now in LAN.
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>Also, I found later in the day that many of those infected were in a wave of recent hires who were not much familiar with email viruses (and not computer-savvy people), so I'm not going to blame them for opening the attachments. That was clearly LAN's fault for not publicizing it.
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>BTW, I managed to isolate a copy of Life Stages and print it off this morning. You can see the scripting code, the sending Do While loop, etc. Kind of interesting.


Yeah, it seems kinda simple. They are just relying on people's gullibility, so when they open it - AAAAAHHHHHHH!
John Harvey
Shelbynet.com

"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Stephen Wright
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