It's the... It's the... Anna virus! Oh no!

[Marc]

From CNet (http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-4792664.html?tag=tp_pr):

A virus posing as a photo of Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova spread aggressively on Monday, as major security companies rushed to update their antivirus software to detect the fast-spreading e-mail virus.

"Compared to the 'Love Bug', it's spreading twice as fast," said Alex Shipp, antivirus technologist with British e-mail service MessageLabs. In the five hours since MessageLabs detected the infection, its users have received almost 2,900 copies of the infected e-mail sent from more than 290 different domains.

[NickHammy]

I saw this on Sports Center and I started laughing my @$$ off. It's kinda funny.

[Rick Dogg]

That is kind of funny.

[Edited by Rick Reighard on 03-04-2001 at 01:34 PM]

[Wedge231]

Lol, time for me to update my virus protection software.

[H. Tiemann Jr.]

Originally posted by Wedge231
Lol, time for me to update my virus protection software.

LOL....yeah me too....

I heard this and said oh man!!!!

This is going to be BIG!!!!

[Marc]

Actually, after spreading rapidly at first, the virus has apparently slowed down. Yet, people still get infected. What will it take for us to learn? :confused:

[BTRoots]

Viruses are not LOL, wherever they originate, for whatever reason.

[Wedge231]

My neighbor got a virus. It just takes people to open an attachment and they lose stuff I guess. I'm lucky and never got anything. Too bad for my friend who once gave himself a virus to see what it was like.

[H. Tiemann Jr.]

i got a virus about 6 months ago....wiped everthing out...I mean EVERYTHING!!! It was horrible....

Spent about 2 weeks trying to fix everything...:(

[Wedge231]

Over the summer, my hard drive crashed and I lost everything too.

[Marc]

Originally posted by H. Tiemann Jr.
i got a virus about 6 months ago....wiped everthing out...I mean EVERYTHING!!! It was horrible....

Spent about 2 weeks trying to fix everything...:(

I guess you didn't have backup? You, and everyone else, should have backup - don't try to backup ALL of your files, just irreplaceble files like favorites, buddy lists, etc. I do this regularly to my CD-RW and recommend you do, too. And Howard, I guess you learned your lesson. :)

Originally posted by Wedge231
It just takes people to open an attachment and they lose stuff I guess.
Not always, I once got a virus, the KAK worm, by simply reading an e-mail - it was from a contact of mine who got it from someone else. I detected the worm and fixed it on my machine, then told her and she fixed it. :)

[Wedge231]

Oh. Ok, thanks.

[BTRoots]

Speaking of viruses, what does it mean when you receive an emial (envelope) with no info listed. When you hightlight it to delete, you open the email. Question 1) what is this. Question 2) how do you delete it, without opening it.

Forgive me, I'm an oldtimer to computers, but a newcomer to the internet.

Thanks. :)

[Marc]

Originally posted by CanFan
Speaking of viruses, what does it mean when you receive an emial (envelope) with no info listed. When you hightlight it to delete, you open the email. Question 1) what is this. Question 2) how do you delete it, without opening it.

Forgive me, I'm an oldtimer to computers, but a newcomer to the internet.

Thanks. :)
I'm not sure I'm following you, but I would say you can expect not to understand every single message you get - some won't make sense and will be from people you don't know - just delete them and ignore them.