Roy Schestowitz wrote:
High Plains Thumper on Saturday :
nessuno wrote:
“According to an email sent out by Asus, PC Advisor
reports, the Eee Box’s 80GB hard drive has the
recycled.exe virus files hidden in the drive’s D:
partition. When the drive is opened, the virus activates
and attempts to infect the C: drive and an removable
drives connected to the system. According to Symantec, the
malware is likely to be the W32/Usbalex worm, which
creates an autorun.inf file to trigger recycled.exe from
D:. Separately, we’ve been testing the Eee Box this week,
and discovered our review unit came loaded with the
W32/Taterf worm - aka W32.Gammima.AG, aka kavo.exe malware
that sniffs out online gaming usernames and passwords."
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2016&tag=nl.e589
In other words, the virus comes with the Windows version.
Surprise, surprise.
Interesting. It goes to show how easy it is for Microsoft
Windows to receive malware, not limited to consumers only.
However, their Linux versions are not among those, thank
goodness. :-)
Of course, not many people who buy an ASUS Eee PC actually
keep the operating system on it. Oh nn.
Some people enjoy their possibilities and resolve the problem
when it turns out that there's no Internet protection, no
office suites, and the environment is not so responsive.
Sometimes there may be technical errors too. It's a familiar
situation though: Someone asks you to resolve a problem with
Windows. You know you had the necessary skills. You pick up
your toolset, which includes a CD with vital software on it.
Having approached the problematic computer, it is clear that
it needs to be rebooted. CD-ROM on the tray, boot and wipe.
Install GNU/Linux. Windows problem solved. Who ever said
it's hard to resolve Windows issues?
People tend to forget how bad Old XP really is. That's because
they compare it to Vista rather than something like Mandriva
2009 or Leopard.
Even if the XP computer came with Microsoft Works, would be of
some assistance but still it is no office suite. The OpenOffice
Suite well surpasses that, providing definite value added
goodness. With proper security practises, Linux being lighter
weight and not requiring a background anti-virus task is more
spritely in performance, especially for "light weight" PC's and
notebooks.
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HPT
Quando omni flunkus moritati
(If all else fails, play dead)
- "Red" Green
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