Guys, read and heed....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10684853/

 

Great. Just what we need.

I think hackers should be the subject of public beatings. Remember the guy who vandalized the cars that time; was it Michael Fay or something?

Couple of lashes with the cane and I bet he never picks up a can of spray paint again in his LIFE.
What's in it for a hacker? Is there money in disrupting people’s lives and businesses, or is it just for status in the Geek world?

 

them darn virus creators should be treated as I do tresspasser, tresspassers will be prostituted, survivors will be shot

 

Actually, they should be jailed for life or shot....or both!

This is a serious threat to our national security also. Many soldiers are at risk becuase of viruses and computers being knocked out of service.

 

A few of the write ups I've seen seemed to suggust the XPsp2 and 2003 server are the ones at risk but others say any windows machine is at risk. I guess Bill must be busy he says he'll have a fix for it next week , others (read not microsoft) built a fix for it over the weekend I am wondering if using a non MS browser will offer some protection?

 

A lot of info and a temporary fix can be found here ~ http://www.grc.com/sn/notes-020.htm


This is a nasty bugger.

 

Thanks for the link BC847, grc.com are some good folks, very cool of them to host the fix for hexblog while it's down, feeling a bit safer now

 

Prostituted

 

YUP, shortround caught it, was not a typo

 

This is the same as the Windows Meta File Flaw.

Which up to date antivirus software prevents any exploiting, as said by microsoft and mcafee.

The media always overhypes everything.

So yes, your microsoft machine is unprotected without a good up to date antivirus software. What a concept.

 

Ummmm, . . . .. . back to the topic of the thread . . . .

MS has issued a patch for this vulnerability, go to MS Windows Update and install the patch ASAP.

Happy motoring.

 

Well I had it for about 2 weeks before it finally killed my computer. It took us 2 days to fix it. Not only that we messed up a portable hard drive too. We are not sure what happened to it but it locked up too.

If you get and icon that looks like a flying saucer , you got it. Can't get rid of it except by reloading everthing.

I would like to get a hold of some of these geeks who think it is humorous to mess up other peoples stuff. Like keying a car. just for the fun of it.

Maybe putting a couple fingers under the dualls and doing a burnout over them would get their attention.

I'd like to imprint a P4 chip right in their forehead along with a fist in the mouth.

Back half and eon ago some guys broke into one of the racers garages and stole a bunch of stuff. They got to bragging around and the racers found out who it was. 6 of the bigger guys the smallest about 260 paid a visit in the evening hours and arranged some restitution. All the parts were returned plus cash for the inconvience and pay for the viglantees time and travel. With an understanding that if they come around again they might find themselves out in the dessert tied to motor blocks. Never saw them again.

 

BC847 thanks for the update that M$ has issued the patch, I checked last night. nothing.. just went in and found it and installed, complete w restart. Strongly recomend all others do the same.

 

Was that flying saucer icon happen to be called Spyware Strike ? If so I got it.

I am in the process of backing up all of the pictures and everything before I reformat my machine. Stupid viruses and spyware. Ad-aware, Spybot search and destroy, and AVG anti virus have been unable to purge my machine of this garbage.

 

might down load and try to clean with "Stinger"
or

run http://housecall.trendmicro.com/