Computer Science Canada

Virus Warning

Author:  Ravage [ Tue May 13, 2003 12:16 pm ]
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I just thought I'd give you all a heads up, I heard on the news today of some huge virus going around, mainly through hotmail and kazaa. Just thought I'd let ya know

Author:  Blade [ Tue May 13, 2003 12:36 pm ]
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we all get tonnes of viruses by downloading crap off of kazza and other file sharing systems... my dad got one cuz he got something for dos for the old lil 386 we got. and i took it downstairs so i could put it on a floppy and my mom's comp detected that it had 4 viruses in it... heh

Author:  Dan [ Tue May 13, 2003 3:34 pm ]
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viurs tageting hotmail, eh.


just to let you know kazaa is, itself a type of viurs. some version of kazaa install a promgae that whould let a compay uses your computer with out you knowing Confused


go for kazaa lite. the lite verison ushley dont have the take over progame.

Author:  Ravage [ Tue May 13, 2003 3:39 pm ]
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Really? I knew kazaa had viruses but I had no idea about that program you were talking about. I dont know tho I just figured if the virus made the news it was a pretty big deal, either that or they got nothing better to talk about.

Author:  void [ Tue May 13, 2003 3:55 pm ]
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its no lie....kazaa uses your comp as a server for commercial sites that pay for the software you download...its in the end-user agreement....but since no one reads that shit...no one really knows about it....thats why you get ad-aware...my computer had about 0.1 gigs worth of phony software, bandwith leeches, and a few time-bomb viruses...

Author:  Ravage [ Tue May 13, 2003 4:02 pm ]
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Huh, wow talk about conspiracies eh?

Author:  Tony [ Tue May 13, 2003 4:36 pm ]
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yeah... as soon as I'm done with school I'm formating my computer. Its nice to format it once in a while, gets rid of all the unwanted stuff.

oh, the cool thing about my Zone Alarm Pro firewall is that it blocks programs to act as a server Very Happy So basically kazaa cant act as a server unless I tell it to do so 8)

Author:  Homer_simpson [ Tue May 13, 2003 4:42 pm ]
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mcaffee fire wall does the same thing... it asks me if i wanna allow it to access internet different ways.... =)

Author:  void [ Tue May 13, 2003 5:31 pm ]
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you knwo whats really annoyin.....THOSE FREAKING IP PO-UPS...the type that pop up without using IE....its very annoying...no i dont wanna enlarge my peni$....and no i dont wanna meet hot suzy.... Evil or Very Mad arghhhhhhh

Author:  ZeroKelvin [ Tue May 13, 2003 7:31 pm ]
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wow Shocked , i knew kazza was a spyware but i never thought it has a virus in it.
now i hv to switch to kazza lite fast,
or is it too late?

Author:  Asok [ Tue May 13, 2003 7:32 pm ]
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I want to meet hot suzy. rawwr! Twisted Evil call me!

Laughing

Author:  Ravage [ Wed May 14, 2003 11:51 am ]
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And I thought Fwuffy was bad for "special" comments

Author:  JSBN [ Wed May 14, 2003 6:05 pm ]
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actually, macafee just prompted me that there is a virus going round through p2p & hotmail, but that any good virus protector should find it... good thing i got NAV & NPF Smile. ugh... DAMN U BlueMountain.com( i just got about 4 e-mails from them)... FYI, if u get a message from BlueMountain.com it contains a virus :-S (or at least NAV tells me so). u know who i want to meet? Pam.... (if u have msn, u'll understand)

Author:  Leafs Fan [ Thu May 15, 2003 11:25 pm ]
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download the program called Adaware.. also just to let u guys know that even kazaa lite has some stuff in it, it blocks some sites out! theres a file in ur comp called HOST find it

Author:  Tony [ Fri May 16, 2003 7:51 am ]
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yeah... Cuz resently I found out that when I run into 404 error I get farwarded to some search site... I'm preaty sure that came from kazaa.

I dont use it myself (often), but my bro uses it as him MP3 player Confused I am soo formating when I'm done with my projects. In a week from now actually.

Author:  Dan [ Fri May 16, 2003 9:31 am ]
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Leafs Fan wrote:
download the program called Adaware.. also just to let u guys know that even kazaa lite has some stuff in it, it blocks some sites out! theres a file in ur comp called HOST find it


i whould not deltea that file if i where you, i think it only dealces what the ip of the locale host is and the ip / url of the sheach thing is for IE.

if you could give more info about this, llike if the file has an extion, where is whould be on your hd and pwhat sites it bans or what the file has in it, it whould be helpfull.


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