Wednesday 8 May, 2002 at 10:08PM (Nereus)  ::  permalink  ::  comments (0)

Middle of the week. I read something about the latest nasty virus doing the rounds - Klez. This prompted me to try running a virus check at a free online test site, and guess what? No, no Klez on me, mate. The PC did however have the PE_MAGISTR.B virus in no less than 28 different files. *ack*

The Magistr virus can be nasty (trashes the hard drive and deletes certain files) but fortunately it has some sort of dormant period first, and I was lucky enough to get it before it triggered. Interesting note: the highest rate of infection of this magistr virus is in Australia / New Zealand at 4.2%.

The good news is that I have found a free online virus scanner at trendmicro.com which will detect both of these viruses as well as many others, and from there you can delete them. The version of Norton we have did not pick up anything, although it needs updating. I suggest you go run a check on your PC at that site. It takes a bit of time, but it's worth it.

A friend of mine, Scott, wasn't so lucky and ended up having to format his entire drive ..at around about the same time I was running the checks on the PC here. Lucky for me huh. Not so much for him.

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