Virus Alert: Handcuff.pif

[xboxrulz 0]

A week old virus has been released onto the internet. It is able to store itself into your process and you will no be able to remove it unless you force it by using the Administrator account.I will cover on it more on my new site after it's complete: virusalert.cjb.netxboxrulz

[JaVe 0]

All my friends are stupid: "AAAHH he or shee sent me a virus" - they blindly accept any file coming from their friends account, pif is ms-dos btw. And they don't know how they spread. Luckily for me, i can see who to trust, normally in gaim the person opens a convo then tries to send me 'hello.pif' which i cancel and closes without saying anything, it; s the work of a virus. And some people stupid enough don't even know what the hell to do.

[xboxrulz 0]

lol, that's true. Usually viruses comes in the form in .pifxboxrulz

[Dontvoteforbush 0]

There are hundreds of viruses that are spread every week.Mainly because alot of people hate Bill Gates,and create viruses specifacly for that purpose.Two common ways that a computer can contract an MBR or boot sector virus are: by starting up from an infected floppy disk; or by running an infected program, which causes the virus to drop an altered MBR or boot sector onto the hard disk.The malicious activity of an MBR or boot sector virus is typically contained after Windows XP Professional starts. If the virus payload (the malicious activity of the virus) does not run during system startup and if the virus does not alter the original MBR or boot sector, Windows XP Professional prevents the virus from self-replicating to other disks.During normal operation, Windows XP Professional is immune to viruses infecting these disk structures because it accesses physical disks only through protected-mode disk drivers. Viruses typically subvert the BIOS INT 13h disk access routines, which are ignored after Windows XP Professional starts. However, on computers with multiple-boot configurations, such as Windows XP Professional with Microsoft? MS-DOS?, Microsoft? Windows? 95, Microsoft? Windows? 98, or Microsoft? Windows? Millennium Edition (Me), an MBR or boot sector virus might infect the computer when you are running another operating system. If this happens, Windows XP Professional is vulnerable to damage.Viruses that execute their payload during startup are a threat to computers that are running Windows XP Professional because the virus executes before Windows XP Professional takes control of the computer. After Windows XP Professional activates the protected-mode disk drivers, the virus cannot copy itself to other hard disks or floppy disks because the BIOS mechanism on which the virus depends is not used for disk access.I like Windows, and I love some of the things you can do with a good Windows computer. But I can't hide from reality any more than you can. Careless Windows users are making the world an unpleasant place. My e-mail used to be enjoyable. These days it's a pain to get through. Ten percent of my e-mail is a product of a single Windows virus, the Klez Worm. One of every 10 letters I get every day comes from Klez-infected Windows PCs or from mail servers that send me automated notes telling me I'm sending out my own copies of the Klez Worm. I'm not doing that, of course. I have the best possible antivirus software on my Windows PC, and my Mac wouldn't know a Klez Worm from a klezmer band if one came up and smacked my Mac in the nose. (Macs are immune to Windows viruses. Repeat after me. There will be a test later in this column. Macs are immune to Windows viruses.) It's the mail servers that are daffy, not me; they're inanely ignorant of what the Klez Worm has done to human civilization. I'm not exaggerating or making any part of this up. The Klez Worm steals e-mail addresses from hapless Windows PCs and sends them on to fellow Klez Worms hiding away in other Windows PCs. (Not in Macs. Repeat after me: The Klez Worm can't hide in Macs.) These Klez buddies then send even more Klez Worms out to all the addresses they can find, using the previously stolen addresses as their own fake return address. In other words, Windows PCs that are infected by the Klez Worm -- probably 20 million worldwide, by my own educated guess -- are allowing these invaders to steal and then share e-mail addresses. The addresses that have been stolen are used to fake, or "spoof," the source of further mailings. A lot of people have my address in their Windows address books. The Klez family of worms knows me well. Hundreds of times, perhaps thousands of times, they've stolen my name and my address from Windows users who have written to me. They've used my e-mail address as their spoofed return address more times than I could ever want to count. And each time a spoofed e-mail slips out from an infected Windows PC with my address as the fake "From:" address, a mail server somewhere sends me a letter telling me it detected a virus I was trying to send. The fact that anybody who runs a mail server ought to know by now that the Klez Worm is faking all the return addresses seems to mean nothing. These e-mail servers keep doing their thing. Nails are smarter than e-mail servers. My confidence in the integrity of e-mail itself has already sunk to a new low, but I have even less confidence in the automated software that sends mail here and there. All a terrorist would have to do is ... I can't even bring myself to say this. I don't want to plant an idea in the wrong mind. But you are getting my point, right? When will this ever end? Remember the test? Here it is. Name one kind of computer that is not affected by Windows viruses. You're right. It's a Mac. Does that mean you ought to toss your Windows PC out the window and run out to buy a Mac? No, doing that sort of thing is environmentally unfriendly. Give the PC to a niece or nephew instead. But you owe it to yourself and to your friends -- they're the ones who suffer when your address book is stolen -- to consider an Apple Macintosh the next time you are weary of Windows. I used to recommend Linux computers also, but the current Macs are far better; like Linux PCs, modern Macs are based on a Unix (or Unix-like) operating system; unlike Linux PCs, Macs are exceptionally easy to use. You also owe it to me. I didn't steal my own e-mail address. Windows users who are careless did. They allowed the Klez Worm to slip into their Windows PCs. Nothing I can say or do will stop most of these Windows users. The ones who care are a wonderful bunch; the ones who are careless are making life miserable for millions of others. They are the ones who will never install good antivirus software or keep it up to date. They're the ones who will never stop to think before opening a strange attachment. They're the ones who haven't got a clue.