Virus flood threatens home users (mytob)

[Omar]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4080420.stm


the above link, is quite safe to click on!

[DavidR]

Exercising safe hex and a degree of common sense should stand give you a reasonable level of protection.

Don't, open email attachments from unknown recipients, even if you know then don't open it if it is unexpected (it could be a faked from address), check, check, check.

For a while new variants of one virus, called Mytob, were appearing every hour. Some viruses appear in hundreds of different guises.

This tactic is designed to fox security firms that use software to scan e-mail attachments for the signatures of known viruses.

The variants are appearing far faster than firms can analyse them and update their scanners to spot the malicious code.