Ramblings, opinions, and general meanderings from the Deep South

Monday, June 14, 2004

New nasty written by a creep and possible cure

Ran into a new Trojan Horse today. It's identified as Trojan Horse BackDoor.Agent.BA. This thing is nasty. Worked for several hours trying to remove it and Tom thinks he has it defeated. Haven't talked about it at length, but will tomorrow morning. There is a string of discussions about this spawn of scum over at Computing.net. The jerk that wrote this targeted AVG users and so far AVG has not acknowledged the virus or any problem. It will be interesting to see how they handle this dilemna. Just arose from a flexiril stupor and am anxious to see the solution. I'll definitely post when I know more. Meanwhile. don't delete your AVG. That's what this creep wants. Let's see if our friends in Europe come up with a workable solution and let me talk to Tom to see if he did magic. BTW, don't worry about whether you have it or not. AVG will keep telling you over and over. Hate to see such an exploit, but this has happened to Symantec (Norton's) several times. Will follow up tomorrow!

Going back to the couch and rest my weary back. Hate being wimpy, wambly, wombly. Later my fellow nerdlings.

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
-Isaac Asimov, from 'Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations', 1988

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