New and dangerous virus for Windows machines....

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>>>>> "Tyler" == Tyler Nally <tnally@iquest.net> writes:

    Tyler> Greetings saints in Jesus name!  Below is a message just
    Tyler> received from the McAfee Anti-Virus folks with a warning
    Tyler> about a new virus/worm that's got an extremely dangerous
    Tyler> payload (payload... what it'll do to those that unwittingly
    Tyler> *infect* their system by opening the attached file).

I cracked up this afternoon.  They made an announcement over the PA
that this thing had already infected the network at my client's (large 
multi-national firm) and that instructions for dealing with it were
being sent via email...

Duh!  Email is how it spreads.  Opening email can be dangerous.
Reminds me of the Dilbert cartoon about the guy called tech support to 
get a password and they told him to send email.  Of course, he can't
send email without a password because he can't log in.

My Unix buddies and I just hee-hawed over this, because of course,
since we are not running Microsoft stuff, we are immune to this
virus.  :-)

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