Was it actually a youtube link or somewhere else?
I received one of these recently from a friend,
who had no idea he'd sent it, but lots of his
friends received it. Fortunately, I don't run
Windows* so it didn't manage to deploy its payload.
* well, I do sometimes, but it's not allowed out
onto the Internet.
--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]
probably something else in fact but I'm not minded to go back there
again to check
What security software do you use? It sounds as though it need changing,
updating or supplementing.
Peter Crosland
My wife's computer running XP Pro went down a
couple of weeks ago from trojans and finally would
not boot. I was about to do a system restore and
lose all the data, including PAYE records, when I
read about Knoppix. This is a complete Linux system
bootable, on a CD, and what's more completely free.
I was able to read and save the data on hard disk to
a UBS memory stick, all 'documents and data' and
'program files'. A real lifesaver. HTH.
Cheers, Alan.
"Alan Murphy" <afm...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:KumdnZGWe7P3fBHW...@bt.com...
> My wife's computer running XP Pro went down a
> couple of weeks ago from trojans and finally would
> not boot. I was about to do a system restore and
> lose all the data, including PAYE records,
Just what you want to know.. possibly losing all that personal PAYE data to
whomever was running the trojans.
Why do people insist on putting personal data on machines connected to the
internet, probably without a proper firewall and possibly without proper AV
software?
I bet the data wasn't encrypted either.
But no substitute for having effective, and up to date anti-virus and
anti-Trojan software in the first place.
Peter Crosland
--
Clint Sharp