Virus Alert For Kazza And Grokster Users

[Thor]

Plz don't move this as I know ppl don't go to Nerd Culture.

A new virus has emerged putting Kazza, Grokster and Morpheus users at risk. It is a worm virus.

Find out more here

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.supova.worm.html

[Northwind]

You know what's great? being a Mac user, and knowing that while all these Windows users are trembling over the Virus of the Week, you are safe and sound and unworried. :D

[Firefly]

Sigh, and I was just about to d/l Kazaa and all. :rolleyes:

[Thor]

DID YOU NOT READ THIS. I said plz

No-one comes here to Nerd Culture. Dang it

[A4Ever]

Hahaha, it's pretty funny that they moved it anyway.

I thought your argument was pretty good though.

[Firefly]

lol, well, it shows up in New Posts and stuff too ... That's the way I found it, cos I do never go in Nerd Culture. :p

[Thor]

Thats my point. no-one come here but me

[NightFall]

its still here in free thoughts too. lol. its ok..

lol.. and i wason my way to kazaa just now when i saw this.. ohwell.... my computer is crap anyway.

[Firefly]

How is it in Free Thoughts as well?

And most worms would be detected by AV software though, why are these so special?

[Thor]

These worms seem to diguise themselves as proper utilities, such as WinZip Full or a cd crack of some sort. I downloaded the virus from a number of sources and today I invested in an anti-virus.
Last week I had a new hard-drive installed (new start) and ran the anti-virus today. It picked up 65 viruses. Most of them were the Supernova virus (Grokster/Kazza one). I also found a number of trojans and backdoor viruses. All this happened in a week.

The supernova virus is almost undetectable and apparantly, it lays dorment until you 'disturb' it.

It appears as Kitty icons in your windows/media file

I'll keep you posted on any new viruses.

[Firefly]

But Sophos or Norton will keel it?

[wet1]

This is not the first time that virus notices have went out to Kazza users or Grokster either for that matter. I was going to download Kazza after the demise of AudioGalaxy. When I went to my favorite download site, I took the time to read users comments. I decided real fast I wouldn't use it. I don't need a site testing how well my virus scanner works each day.

Yes, people do go to the nerd culture site. I found it to answer it. All things in their place.

[Clarentavious]

Virus Alert For Kazza And Grokster Users

Yes!!!! :D Now we can nail some pirate bastards with viruses. Take that you turnip hating swashbucklers :D