[thechat] Stupid Viruses

Ben Dyer ben_dyer at imaginuity.com
Thu Jul 25 13:36:00 CDT 2002


Anyone seen this one?

Every time I opened a new window in IE, it would create two windows: the
default about:blank plus another window that it immediately tried to close.

Did some hunting, thought it might be a virus, McAfee found three instances
of LoveLetter-infected files in my Temporary Internet Files folder.  But I
thought LoveLetter was an e-mail-borne virus:

<http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/love.shtml>

Now, I haven't received any e-mail viruses (and I use Eudora), so I'm
pretty sure that isn't it...could I have picked up something via the
web??  I haven't really been visiting any "shady" sites today. (Well, maybe
Rudy's site...you never know with that cookie and all. ;)

Anyone ever seen anything like this?

--Ben


Ben Dyer, Senior Internet Developer, Imaginuity Interactive
http://www.imaginuity.com/

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