[thelist] odd IE worm or something..

John C Bullas jcbullas at nildram.co.uk
Tue Nov 11 03:12:29 CST 2003


At 02:08 11/11/2003, Diane Soini wrote
>How's this for a short exerpt:
>On Sunday, November 9, 2003, at 09:32 PM, thelist-request at lists.evolt.org 
>wrote:
>
>>>What happens is that a IE window spawns of *its own accord.*
>
>Anyway, this exact same thing happened yesterday to my boyfriend on his 
>Windows XP computer. I remembered some recent posts to this list for 
>something called lavasoft and he went out and got it, installed it and ran 
>it and it helped. Turned out he had something like 39 viruses, ad-wares, 
>spy-wares and whatever else is out

Lavasoft Addaware? brilliant stuff..... buy him an antivirus package for 
Christmas, Addaware is not an anti-virus package :)

It sounds like he was using Kazaa and not Kazaa Lite ( cracked version of 
Kazaa without the spyware and nasties) to download his Frank Sinatra videos

FB

>there. (That's probably not the right terminology for this junk, but I'm a 
>mac user so how would I know?)
>
>Problem was solved.
>
>Thanks so much for this list! It is so helpful!



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