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Posted by Dustbin on November 27, 2006, 4:13 pm
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Tim Murray wrote:
> An acquaintance calls me around midnight, "I think I caught a virus
> and it ate my hard disk." She said she got two e-mails in Yahoo
> mail. One said something like "you need to install this security
> update" and ran it. She rebooted afterward, and now her computer
> tells her it can't find an operating system.
>
> The point is that Symantec,who drives the mail scanning at Yahoo,
> clearly missed this one. In fact, she later used another computer
> and forwarded the same mail to my Yahoo account, and I was able to
> "scan and download" it straight away. That was this morning about 1
> am EST, so Symantec might pick it up by now.
>
> The Mac's ClamXav detected it, however, as something called
> Worm.Stration.WG. Is this a very new one?
Both you and your friend are idiots.
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