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This is a warning that there is a *very* bad virus spreading very fast
> > across the world today. I spent about 8 hours trying to clean it off of
> my
> > web server in Washington DC today. Apparently it infected one of the
> other
> > computers hosted by the same company, and once on their internal
network,
> > spread through some holes in Microsoft NT to all of their other servers,
> > including mine. It ended up overwriting every web page on my site with
> > modified files that would cause people who surfed to my site to get a
> virus
> > downloaded to them! Thats right, no opening attachments...just the
simple
> > act of viewing the web page would download the virus to their system.
> > That's why it's spreading so fast.
> > I've seen many Internet sites affected today. The official count is
over
> 1
> > million web sites affected. I restored all of my files from a backup
> after
> > patching the Microsoft hole, so I think our site is safe now.
> >
> > So, make sure you first go to the web site for your virus software
> (McAfee,
> > Norton, whatever). Download their latest virus definition files (Dat
> files)
> > to update your virus software. All of them now protect against this new
> > virus, so then you should be safe. Do not surf to *any* other web sites
> > till you have updated your virus software. Once you get the virus, it's
> > very hard to get rid of.
> >
> > To tell if you have the virus already or not, run NotePad and open the
> > SYSTEM.INI file. If one of the first couple of lines looks like this:
> >
> > Shell=explorer.exe load.exe -dontrunold
> >
> > then you have the virus.
> >
> > The virus is called NIMDA (that's "Admin" spelled backwards). It was
> first
> > detected at about 9:08am this morning, coinciding with last weeks
attack.
> > It is a *very* sophisticated virus. A normal virus uses a single hole
or
> > method to infect or spread. NIMDA uses 16 different methods...basically
> all
> > of the major methods used in the last year or so. It's the first virus
to
> > rewrite web pages to cause itself to download by just viewing a web
page.
> > The FBI is investigating and claims no known association with the trade
> > center attack last week, but I'm not so sure. This virus is the most
> > sophisticated one ever seen and it's timing can't be a coincidence. I
> hope
> > the people who did this get punished bad. It's just another form of
> > terrorism.
> > The virus was mentioned in a press conference by the Attorney General
> today
> > in passing, but hasn't gotten much news coverage at all. My guess is
that
> > they don't want to get everyone upset and panicking again.
> > So far, it doesn't look like the virus does anything bad to your system,
> > other than to spread itself, causing your computer and network
connection
> to
> > get slow. But who knows what is lurking in there. It certainly was bad
> > enough to keep my web site down for about 8 hours.
> >
> > Anyway, go update your virus software. This is a nasty one.
> >
> > Mike

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Does this virus or worm pose any danger to systems using Windows 98 or Windows Me?

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Where do I find this file to open?
Is it in Windows?
Sorry, not a computer nerd.
Thanks,
A

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