Alt.config 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 ? -Larry

Larry <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:4b1v7.53216$[email hidden]...

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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 ? >

As far as I can tell it's not a real virus.

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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 Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy "The Pits" http://www.theuspits.com/ * Spam is for losers who can't get business any other way * "Spamkiller" http://www.spamkiller.com

"Goy Larsen" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> > > Larry wrote: > > > > 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

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> > 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

"Bad-Boy" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:KB2v7.8441$[email hidden]...

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> "Goy Larsen" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > > > > > Larry wrote: > > > > > > Um, what the hell is this thing? I got a warning that I 'got' it when

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> > > 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 It would be nice to find the scumbag that did that and hang him up by his nuts. Very, very annoying and scares a lot of folks into thinking they truly have a virus. Fwiw, OE 6.0 is very secure, however to truly keep that from happening you would need to disable java scripting in Internet Explorer, it would disable it in OE then as well. Don Burnette

"Don Burnette" <[email hidden]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:bP7v7.32108$[email hidden]... > Fwiw, OE 6.0 is very secure, however to truly keep that from happening you > would need to disable java scripting in Internet Explorer, it woulddisable > it in OE then as well. 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

>Then you make OE to use the restricted zone in the outlook >express security options. (IE/OE 5.x; don't know about 6) 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

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>>Then you make OE to use the restricted zone in the outlook >>express security options. (IE/OE 5.x; don't know about 6) > >Yup Yup, GRIN GRIN, same in OE 6.0. > >A people wonder why we use Microshaft software. > > >--

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