Monday, August 07, 2006

Check your Computers!

I’m sending this to everyone who sent email to me since August 1, 2006, and to addresses of blogs/news to which I subscribe. (Also posting this to my blog)
My virus protection software found and isolated a computer worm named Worm/Generic.TX. It found it in this file: C:\1386\REG.EXE
Joel says this is a very important file. The file was found on 8-4-06 (midmorning) so it came into my computer within the 24 hours prior to that time.

Please run your virus protection software to check for this. And if you have software that you purchased and installed, it won’t be current enough.
We use AVG. This is free to private individuals and scans automatically EVERY DAY, and also updates itself (also automatically) very frequently – whenever new viruses and worms are identified.
Here is a link to its site: http://www.grisoft.com/doc/1 A link in the right sidebar (under Top Threats) mentions this worm.
And here is a link to the free download: download here. Read about it and download from here…
Professional and businesses can buy an upgraded version at the same site.

We’ve used this software for several years: it has NEVER let me down. I HIGHLY recommend it!

I DO NOT KNOW for sure that the worm came to me from any of you. I subscribe to several news links and to several bloggers.
I am 95% certain that I did not send it out accidentally since I rarely ‘forward’ anything and AVG had it isolated very quickly.
I just think it would be wise to check out your systems.

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