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I had a voicemail message from the University help desk saying my computer had a virus, so they sent a person over here to do a Norton Antivirus thinger to remove this "Welchia Worm" or something. Anybody know about this? I was totally oblivious to it-- didn't notice anything weird. Maybe you have it too! I didn't get the full details from the person that they sent over here; there was somewhat of a language barrier. |
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It's the same as Nachi, MSBlast, or Lovsan... |
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Weird--- how did I get it again? |
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You had people round from the university to remove your worm...are they even allowed to do that? Just go to symantecs site or something and look it up...there is loads of stuff there. |
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I didn't even know I had it; I just checked my voicemail and there was a message like "You have a virus, we need to send someone over to reconcile the situation" and I was like 'yeah- WHATEVER' |
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I have a homepage with the university; but I don't know how they would have scanned my computer for viruses? Or maybe I picked up the virus and it leaked itself onto my webpage through my computer? It is a mystery. |
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just drink lots of orange juice |
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It is transferred by email...they probably just scanned an email you sent to someone from your home computer to someone on their email server...that is how they know... |
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Ahah! Case closed. |
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it also very well could be that the university folks noticed the incredible amounts of child pornography being transfered to and from your harddrive ... but seriously, yeah, that's bizarre. sounds kinda fishy if you ask me - maybe they're pulling the shit with not wanting to bring on the wrath of record companies for student MP3 piracy? |
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You could have gotten it again if you just cleaned the virus the first time and didn't install the patch, or you could have reverted to a previous state... or maybe you really didn't have a virus and they computer people just wanted to check your box for pirated software and music =P The IT people at my college were completely stupid when they cleaned up the mess made by this worm. The internet was down for about a week and they distrubuted the patch as an email attachment with the subject saying something like "YOUR COMPUTER MAY HAVE A VIRUS! INSTALL THIS PATCH NOW!" |
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It's not transferred by email. It's transferred directly between computers through open ports. And they can tell if you have it by the number of connections to other computers your computer has open, as well as the amount of traffic generated from it. |
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