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NakedWife & Wireless Protection

You should have listened to your mother.

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ERROR: Random File Unopenable

The random file, as specified in the $random_file perl variable was unopenable.

The file was not found on your file system. This means that it has either not been created or the path you have specified in $trrandom_file is incorrect.

A Busy Week for Virus Hunters

by Dave Murphy
ISSN 1535-3613

Naked Wife is now classified as a high risk virus. The email attachment purports to display a bit of erogenous entertainment. Actually it deletes all .BMP, .COM, .DLL, .EXE, .INI, and .LOG files in the C:\WINDOWS and C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM directories. It also sends itself to each recipient in the Windows Address Book using Microsoft Outlook with the following message:

### Subject: Fw: Naked Wife
Body:
My wife never look like that! ;-)
Best regards,
(sender’s name)

Attachment: NakedWife.exe
###

So go figure.

The nasty is sent to you by someone you know (because your address is in their address book).
You check to see if the coast is clear.
You pop open the program to cop a bit of video flesh.
Your PC is wiped clean, crashes, and can't be restarted.

Didn't your mother tell you to stay away from nasties? Don’t you wish you listened to her?

And speaking of listening, don't you wish you listened to your IS department. If you'd kept your McAfee VirusScan updated with at least dat4126, you'd have been safe. The update came out late Tuesday. Dat version 4127 followed on Wednesday. Download 4127, install it, and don't be looking where you shouldn't.

Even with all the excitement of NakedWife, McAfee released it's latest anti-virus software for handheld devices.

VirusScan Wireless 2.0 starts at $28 a copy and will protect Palm OS handhelds, Microsoft Pocket PCs, and Symbian's EPOC handheld operating systems.

Even if you're handheld isn't wireless, you should install VirusScan Wireless 2.0. It will protect you from infrared-transferred files. I learned to keep my infrared receipt capability turned off on my Handspring Visor because my acquaintances think it's great fun to surreptitiously send me files through the air during committee meetings.

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