What a pain in the ass. Now you get bit by just reading a message. Thank
for the tight security Microsoft!
Anyway, I searched the SARC and couldn't find anything about it.
I'm doing a Norton Scan now. So far, no hits.
Is this thing a joke or something ?
-Larry
As far as I can tell it's not a real virus.
> Um, what the hell is this thing? I got a warning that I 'got' it when I
> clicked on that one message...
> What a pain in the ass. Now you get bit by just reading a message. Thank
> for the tight security Microsoft!
> Anyway, I searched the SARC and couldn't find anything about it.
> I'm doing a Norton Scan now. So far, no hits.
> Is this thing a joke or something ?
I'm writing it off as a joke myself
Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
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> > Um, what the hell is this thing? I got a warning that I 'got' it when I
> > clicked on that one message...
> > What a pain in the ass. Now you get bit by just reading a message.
Thank
> > for the tight security Microsoft!
> > Anyway, I searched the SARC and couldn't find anything about it.
> > I'm doing a Norton Scan now. So far, no hits.
> > Is this thing a joke or something ?
> Most likely it's a script telling you that you have a virus, I did a
> full scan myself after someone posted that McAfee reported a virus, and
> couldn't find anything on my system either
> I'm writing it off as a joke myself
Peter
> > > Um, what the hell is this thing? I got a warning that I 'got' it when
I
> > > clicked on that one message...
> > > What a pain in the ass. Now you get bit by just reading a message.
> Thank
> > > for the tight security Microsoft!
> > > Anyway, I searched the SARC and couldn't find anything about it.
> > > I'm doing a Norton Scan now. So far, no hits.
> > > Is this thing a joke or something ?
> > Most likely it's a script telling you that you have a virus, I did a
> > full scan myself after someone posted that McAfee reported a virus, and
> > couldn't find anything on my system either
> > I'm writing it off as a joke myself
> It's a Javascript with while (true) loop to bring up the dialog.
> So when you close it, it immediately respawns and blocks you doing
anything.
> Turn off script execution in your newsreader and it won't happen.
> It's safe - but VERY annoying.
> Peter
Don Burnette
No, you just have disable all the stuff in the restricted zone of the
internet explorer
security options. Then you make OE to use the restricted zone in the outlook
express
security options. (IE/OE 5.x; don't know about 6)
--
Joachim B?ddeker
Yup Yup, GRIN GRIN, same in OE 6.0.
A people wonder why we use Microshaft software.
--
R.I.P. - William Joseph Dunlop OBE MBE 2/25/52 - 7/2/2000
http://www.roadracers.uk.com/legend.htm
OR, you could use an actual *newsreader*. Something that doesn't grok
HTML, which doesn't belong on Usenet anyway. Then, the original post
would have just looked ugly. No scare whatsoever.
You might want to think about the fact that while the Java script in the
'alt.config virus' wasn't malicious, just annoying, you could have just as
easily been sent to some malicious javascript, with God knows what
consequences.
Sorry, pet peeve. I'll shut up now.
Mark
