New virus threat.....

[mjc]

This from bitdefender...

Bucharest, Romania - July 11, 2002 - BitDefender Response Team today warns against a new malicious code for PC's running Microsoft ® Windows, spreading across open shares and identifying itself as a "Copyright Microsoft Corp." code. As the FunLove worm, using the same spreading methods, is still troubling large, insufficiently protected networks, experts say that the new Datom worm (Win32.Worm.Datom.A) has definitely a niche to exploit.

http://www.bitdefender.com/press/ref1107.php


Symantec
W32.Datom.Worm is a worm that spreads through open shares. This worm does not contain a damaging payload.



http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.datom.worm.html

[Whyzman]

Well...(definitely a deep subject for my shallow mind :D), I read the link and decided as Al Gore did, "I best inform myself then!"

I pretty much just let AVG & ZA handle security for me. When I read words such as "Heuristics" my knees get weak and shakey and I quickly feel perspiration...really the pits! :rolleyes:

I found THIS (http://online.securityfocus.com/infocus/1542) article that was quite informative and not the "hipwader" variety! ;)