RE: VIRUS WARNING Re: Mplayer.com - Answers

[Barb <pbnj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the additional info. I was busy while the avg was deleting it 
and not paying lots of attention (the joy of doing too many things at once 
-- and getting sent far tooooooooo many virused files on the average day). 
Magistr is a nasty little bug, folks, so please, avoid this one (actually, 
avoid them all -- grisoft.com has a really nice little free anti virus 
program called avg that actually catches a few things Norton misses -- 
though I keep both on my computer).

Barb

> Barb,
> The virus i got with the attachment correctly.pif was 
> W32Magistr.39921@mm virus. It's infects .exe files on your HD. Here's the 
> link to the info on the virus from Symantec's page; 
> <http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.magistr.39921 
> @mm.html>http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.magis 
> tr.39921@xxxxxxx . All in all not a very nice virus, but not the worst either.
>
> --Bill Gopher
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Barb [mailto:pbnj@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 4:37 AM
> > To: buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: VIRUS WARNING Re: ::BuffyWantsWillow:: Mplayer.com par par If 
> > this new download
> >
> > Just so folks know, the two files attached to this email were both infected
> > with a virus (Hybris, I think, but was on the phone as my anti-v was
> > warning me so not paying tons of attention). I strongly advise deleting
> > them and not running them.
> >
> > The files were
> > Readme.doc
> > correctly.pif
> >
> > Barb
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