[Premium-Rx] FYI- Off Topic- Virus W32/Blaster, is spreading rapidly on the internet

[Greg W. Bailey]

Fellow Members-

As a note of interest:  This morning's newspaper contained a story about a new worm Virus entitled:  W32/Blaster.  The reaction of this virus is to shut down your computer via the 'Shut Off' command.

As a retired professor I use the San Diego State University E-mail service.  Within the last 10 minutes I have received a general bulletin from the director of Information Systems at San Diego State University.  It states the entire University is presently under a full scale virus attack.  The last time such a bulletin was forwarded regarding a similar situation (I am sorry I have forgotten the name of that virus) our campus basically ground to a computing halt.

As you may know, we no longer use the SDSU server for the Premium-Rx List, however, I can only assume that all internet servers are presently under attack.  He recommends checking:  

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp


Greg
San Diego

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