Question: A lot of my friends are talking about a virus called Melissa. I guess I need to know more about it, and how to protect myself. – J.L. Answer: It’s true – a devious new Microsoft Word macro virus, with the full name of W97M.Melissa, is tearing across the Internet and threatening the security […]
Question: The real heart of the “I Love You” e-mail virus/worm problem that seems to be going largely undiscussed is e-mail client software that is script-enabled. Does the tiny amount of convenience it affords really outweigh the latent mayhem it enables? Why won’t Microsoft let Outlook users disable it? How are you going to protect […]
BO2K or Back Orifice 2000 is a trojan horse. That’s a program that masquerades as being harmless. Trojan horses are not technically viruses, but they can be equally destructive. Probably the worst kind is a program that says it has cleaned your computer of viruses but infects your computer with one. BO2K is the latest […]
A Trojan horse is a kind of virus that masquerades as a harmless program. Trojan horses do not copy themselves, as normal viruses do, but they can be equally destructive. Probably the worst kind of Trojan horse virus is a program that says it has cleaned your computer of viruses, but instead has actually infected […]
Trojan Horse bulletin: Back Orifice 2000 antidotes available July 12, 1999 Anti-virus authors have released antidotes for Back Orifice 2000, a Trojan horse program unleashed at a hacker’s convention in Las Vegas. Back Orifice has yet to do any damage. It has appeared on the Internet and a handful of disks contain it the BO2K […]