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Feb 24, 2006 | 06:28 AM

Michael Smith

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Virus posing as My Programs

It has come to my attention that 2 viruses peddling themselves as programs I wrote. (does this make me famous????) Freqgengui and Rotary Pulse Recalculator are currently doing the rounds. If you wish to download any of my software please go to
http://www.angelfire.com/wizard/freqgengui/ just wait until I find the culprit GRRRRRRRRRRR better have his flack jacket and flame suit on..

I am not pointing the finger at this forum at all but you guys use my software so I only wish to protect you. I actually found them while seaching every persons computer connected to Limewire. So there are about 500 machines with these viruses. Please everyone if you use Nortons Antivirus (because I have seen it broken) or No Virus scanner there is a free AntiVirus scanner at www.Grisoft.com

Cheers
Michael Smith (Famous for the wrong reason???)

Feb 24, 2006 | 10:11 AM

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virus man!!!!!
lol

wasnt me

Feb 24, 2006 | 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Michael Smith

It has come to my attention that 2 viruses peddling themselves as programs I wrote. .........
........there are about 500 machines with these viruses. Please everyone if you use Nortons Antivirus (because I have seen it broken)............

What do you mean about "because i have seen it broken" your code broken to make its way through norton? or norton itself at times not operating correctly?

also would it be possible for you to submit these viruses to mcafee and norton to make sure that they are included in the antivirus scans when i update the dat files? or is it a virus that has already been out that has your softwares file names?

whats the deal? your code with virus embedded?

Thanks,
Just trying to put my virus condom on my clean computer!

Feb 25, 2006 | 01:20 AM

Michael Smith

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I also fix computers for a hobby and just about every one has Nortons on it. Nortons Security Suite is its own worst enemy. It doesn't allow partial downloads of virus definitions and people using dialup connections never finish all the downloads before the jump off the net.

This means next time there is 2 downloads then 3 and before long a new Virus smashes the machine. I have seen this way too often.
The best solution for a virus scanner is a program that only allows preset known programs to run...no virus definition required. It's called Linux

What the virus has done is attach itself to the front of the file and keep the file name. The give away is that now the program become longer than before, thats if you notice that sort of thing that is. Linux does. (Linux is a alternative operating system to Windows)

Cheers
Michael Smith