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  4. Posted

    We think that my hubbies daughter has got it. :look: Her machine kept trying to connect to a web site called " Caos ' and the first sign that anything was wrong. Her machine wouldn't shut down, then the sound went, and it became slower, and slower. It's now useless.

     

    And she runs Nortons anti virus

  5. Posted

    New email worm, W32.Mimail, spreading

    "The initial numbers look like people are getting hit pretty hard"

     

    Paul Roberts, BOSTON

    Antivirus companies are warning customers about a new email virus that is spreading on the internet.

     

    W32.Mimail is a mass mailing email worm that arrives in email in-boxes disguised as an administrative email sent from an organisation's own administrator.

     

    Messages use the subject "Your Account" and contain the virus in an executable attachment called "message.zip."

     

    When released, the Mimail virus captures email addresses from a user's hard drive and sends copies of itself out to recipients using a built-in SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) engine, according to F-Secure of Helsinki.

     

    Companies including Symantec, Network Associates, F-Secure and others issued warnings about Mimail on Friday.

     

    Most companies rated the new worm a "medium" level threat, indicating that the worm was infecting customer sites and spreading.

     

    Despite the warnings it is still not clear how quickly, or even whether, Mimail is spreading, according to Vincent Gullotto, senior director at Network Associates' McAfee AVERT Labs.

     

    "The initial numbers look like people are getting hit pretty hard -- maybe even a high alert," Gullotto says.

     

    However, the large number of reports about Mimail may just be evidence of a spam-like initial distribution, or "seeding" of the virus, he says.

     

    That would make Mimail similar to another recent email containing a malicious program, Downloader-DI, he says.

     

    That virus set up a secret back door on infected machines and downloaded instructions from a hacker website.

     

    After flooding email in-boxes in an initial spam distribution, however, Downloader-DI died out when other users failed to open the attachment that installed the Trojan program and replicated the message, Gullotto says.

     

    However, the Mimail's spread could also be due to its ability to mask itself as an internal administrative message, tricking users into trusting the message, he says.

     

    In addition, Mimail's malicious code is embedded in a compressed format file, making it difficult for some gateway antivirus products to detect the attack, he says.

     

    While it appears Mimail simply steals email addresses and sends copies of itself out to unsuspecting users, McAfee AVERT is still studying the virus for other malicious activities such as installing Trojan programs that could allow malicious hackers to gain access to the machine at a later date,' Gullotto says.

     

    Antivirus companies, including Network Associates' McAfee antivirus unit, posted updated virus identity files for Mimail Friday and encouraged users to update their antivirus software.

  9. Posted

    Just curious " What's Hot Bot Spider " in members online ?  :laugh:

    Here's how VBG explained spiders:

     

    A Spider is something a search engine like Google sends out to crawl the web for information. So when you search on Google or Yahoo for something like lets say "Doctored Pictures of VBG" these spiders out on the web start searching and if they find something they report it back to the google or Yahoo search for display.

     

    The Hot Bot spider is a spider sent out by the search engine Hot Bot.

    oh ! :laugh: :lol: I must keep them pretty busy then. :cheese:

  10. Posted

    :laugh: That was an interesting link, it turned out to have more Trek article's for auction than it did for Superman. My favorite was this;
    Elsewhere in the sale, dedicated Star Trek fans are expected to pay up to $30,000 (£18,500) for a piece of railing from the original Starship Enterprise. Spock's railing from the Enterprise was salvaged by a fan The nine-foot wooden railing - which was next to Spock's station on the ship's bridge - was salvaged by a fan after being thrown out by Paramount.

    $30.000? :laugh:

    There'll be someone who will buy it. :cheese: Now that's dedication for you. :lol:

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    Banana, as everyone knows, is the rudest of the fruits. Unless you count cucumbers, which cannot be disqualified on technical grounds.

    Well just to follow that one

     

    Fanny Mousse

    Apparently, it's very nice for dipping bananas in! :biggrin:

     

     

    fanny_mousse.jpg

  25. Posted

    Go to the below website, click on the clock icon at the top, select the time closest to your own, and then watch the results.

     

    http://www.humanclock.com/index.php

     

    The site is a collection of pictures for each of the 1,440 minutes in a day. Since anyone can submit images, however, there are multiple images for most of the minutes. It is fun to leave a tab (or window) open to this page and check it on occasion to see the current picture. Some are funny and quite creative!