New Virus out there, do you have it?

@douchrti (176)
United States
September 19, 2008 2:05pm CST
Hello all, hope all is well. Theres a new nastie out there. Its Behaveslike:win32.explorerhijack I noticed it being picked up on a freinds MS Mail program. Probably didnt have the latest updates Im thinking. I put it on my machine and BitDefender picked it up and quarantined it ok. Let me know if you pick it up. Im curious as to when it becomes widespread. Hey, Also let me know what computer security products you are using. And, other steps you take to stay safe, like do you use Hijack This or CCleaner regularly. Stay safe out there.
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mcjohnson7
@mcjohnson7 (301)
• United States
19 Sep 08
Thanks for the heads up douchrti. Sounds like you may be right about your friend not having the latest updates. My virus protection software is McAfee and it automatically scans and installs updates for me. Maybe he should invest in a virus protection software himself. It is certainly worth every penny of the purchase to be protected and not worry about getting the latest updates.
douchrti
@douchrti (176)
• United States
19 Sep 08
Thanks for the reply MC. He's using Norton, and Im wondering if he even had it set up correctly.
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mcjohnson7
@mcjohnson7 (301)
• United States
20 Sep 08
I hate Norton. I hope you get it fixed for him.
hichamov
@hichamov (507)
• Morocco
19 Sep 08
hello thank you so much for the informations, this virus is really infecting a lot of computers, i did a scan with NOD32 and i got a bunch also, more are not really infecting my system but others really badly did. Thank you for the that post.
douchrti
@douchrti (176)
• United States
20 Sep 08
Thanks for the response Hichamov, Ya gotta be careful, thats for sure.
mirage108
@mirage108 (3402)
• United States
19 Sep 08
WOW I didnt know MS Mail was still out there and in use, I thought it went away with NT351 or NT4 was the last that I saw of it. I guess I wont have to worry about it then. if it is coming in through a corporate email system that MS Mail was used for. That is a shame that some company has not upgraded to something newer than MS Mail. which is an old program.
douchrti
@douchrti (176)
• United States
19 Sep 08
Hi Mirage, Thanks for the reply. The MS Mail is on his 9 month old Dell with Vista! I was surprised too, he's gonna bring it over for me to have a look see this weekend.