Protect yourself against the latest Viruses
There either must be some money to earn or people are just really bored: another Worm (or security issue) was found in the WMF file format and you could easily be infected:
“One way this might have happened, and it’s a good example of how easy it is, is through Google Desktop. F-Secure has demonstrated that Google Desktop users can become infected simply by downloading an infected file. When Google Desktop indexes the file it launches the exploit.”
eWeek article
Not bad for an attack.
I wrote a few weeks ago about a free and easy to use Antivirus program, that you might want to try, because they keep their virus information up2date and free to use for personal installations:
Free Antivirus - I know this company quite well, good stuff!
You can also do, what Matt Cutts advises in his blog and disable the affected DLL:
“regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll”
switches that off.
January 30th, 2006 at 10:51 am
I simply don’t understand why people create viruses & spread it all over. What benefit they get with it? Is it simply for fun or are there any monetary gains also or to just show their ’skills’ to the world while remaining anonymous.
My PC was once caught by a dangerous virus which stopped every program from running & started deleting my files & folders. My antivirus software detected it but failed to remove it. It was removed then by another antivirus.
I now have antivirus, anti-spyware & firewall softwares installed at my pc with latest updates, but still no solution could provide 100% protection to our systems, I guess.
August 27th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
You are so right! I really support your opinion! Viruses are something completely useless but people create them and we cannot stop that! It is bad that they cannot produce the best antivirus program! Good article!