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NASCAR Revolution: WARNING!

Philippe Sergeri

NASCAR Revolution: WARNING!

by Philippe Sergeri » Sun, 06 Dec 1998 04:00:00

To all:

I have just downloaded the demo from EA Sports web site. It contains a
virus: W95-CIH. I have  Norton Anti-Virus 5.0, which took care of the
infection, but you should be careful... I will advise EA sports of the
fact.

Philster

M. Llewelly

NASCAR Revolution: WARNING!

by M. Llewelly » Sun, 06 Dec 1998 04:00:00

On another Racing site Philippe reports he caught a Virus from their Sound
Demo which is separate from their Game Demo - here he does not mention that
and is saying that the Game Demo has a Virus - BULL Puckey!!!!B

>To all:

>I have just downloaded the demo from EA Sports web site. It contains a
>virus: W95-CIH. I have  Norton Anti-Virus 5.0, which took care of the
>infection, but you should be careful... I will advise EA sports of the
>fact.

>Philster

Philippe Sergeri

NASCAR Revolution: WARNING!

by Philippe Sergeri » Mon, 07 Dec 1998 04:00:00


> On another Racing site Philippe reports he caught a Virus from their Sound
> Demo which is separate from their Game Demo - here he does not mention that
> and is saying that the Game Demo has a Virus - BULL Puckey!!!!B

> >To all:

> >I have just downloaded the demo from EA Sports web site. It contains a
> >virus: W95-CIH. I have  Norton Anti-Virus 5.0, which took care of the
> >infection, but you should be careful... I will advise EA sports of the
> >fact.

> >Philster

My apologies... The virus was found in the Staccato.zip file found on
EA  Sports web site. In my e***ment, did not think of typing this
down. I simply didn't want anybody else to get this bug... I'm lucky to
have Norton Anti-Virus on my system... not everybody has it...

The 30 meg demo doesn't have the virus... but I did not find the demo at
EA Sports site, so in a way I was correct when I said that the file that
was downloaded from EA Sports site contained a virus...

Philster

"Mieux vaut prevenir que guerir..." or "Better prevent than heal the
wound."

Philippe Sergeri

NASCAR Revolution: WARNING!

by Philippe Sergeri » Mon, 07 Dec 1998 04:00:00


> Excuse my ignorance, but I assume that the only risk is in unzipping and
> executing this download - just downloading it cause no harm?? (In one of my
> 'net trawling sessions I may have snagged this file in my download net, but I
> have certainly not unzipped it yet).

> Scott

No, as long as you don't unzip the file, or open any *.exe files, you
should be ok. W95.CIH works is activated when an *.exe file is used.
But, what's the point of downloading a file if you don't use it?

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