Looks Like Someone Has A Case Of The Mondays -- Chris || Post in the forum
Not even in the middle of the week it took for the people that use computers at work to get this latest virus going around.
The "B" variant of the W32/BadTrans@MM worm has been attacking home and
corporate PCs running Microsoft Outlook. It has initially been categorized as a medium-level risk but is expected to reach high-risk levels by the end of Monday.
Check in my inbox and there is something that is just blank, and all there is is an attachment that is "I'm sorry about yesterday.MP3.pif". That would be great, if :
A: The attachment was larger than about 13kb
B: That it didn't have the extension ".pif"
Dumb computer user: oh... I don't even know who sent me this... I'll just open it just for a second to see what it is. And if it's a virus I'll make sure that I close it as fast as I can before it can get out!
Sad but true, that's what a lot of people do when they get something like that. During the summer Sir Cam was bad for me, when I got about 30 of them in my inbox which took up more than half of my allowed space. Losers.
By Monday midmorning British time, MessageLabs was detecting 100 instances of the worm passing through its e-mail screening servers each minute. On an average day, 10,000 viruses will be intercepted by MessageLabs at an Internet level, but Sumner expects more than 30,000 reports today, with 10,000 attributable to W32/BadTrans-B.
That means that another 20,000 people today will become Computer Idiots for a day. Congratulations if you are one of them, I salute you for paying attention to such warnings on the 'net about not to open unknown email attachments. Common sense, fool.
Dumb computer user: but that's what the virus scanner was supposed to do! it was supposed to protect me from my moronic self!
Computer Guru: It would have helped if you kept the program up-to-date, but obviously someone must have forgotten.
I believe I put it into terms that most of you can understand, don't open anything that you don't know what the hell it is, and keep your virus scanner up-to-date (if you have one)
Looks Like Someone Has A Case Of The Mondays -- 
