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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="95%" align="center"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"><td> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <font size="3" color="#FFFFFF" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>T O P I C ��� R E V I E W</b> </font></td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>The_Tom</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,3,26,21,2,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">April 26, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">09:02 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> None of the news sources are making any sort of deal about Chernobyl, the latest version of the CIH virus that struck today. In the words of ZDNet: <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>'Chernobyl' bug generates little fallout.<br>The CIH virus celebrates its first anniversary by striking some computers, but fails to live up to media hype.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><p>Well screw them.<p>I woke up this morning to a scene of horror on campus.<p>First of all, lets just say I live in on an island when it comes to access to breaking news. I, of all people, had not heard of the CIH threat. Even our SysAdmins hadn't given it any more weight than any other overblown myth that circulates around the net. That being said, we had up-to-date antivirus protection, so even those who did hear about it weren't afraid.<p>We got screwed anyway, and I mean screwed badly.<p>So what is this little beast? The CIH virus originated in Taiwan and spread there over bootlegged copies of Win95 and 98. It then spread to everything else there. On the 26th of every month it pulls a cute little move that results in your entire drive losing everything. The latest version got dubbed 'Chernobyl' as April 26th is the 13th anniversary of the Ukrainian nuclear meltdown. Besides, I couldn't come up with a better name for a virus that essentially melts down your computer.<p>We have a large Asian population on Student Visas from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea, etc. Thus it stands to reason that our campus was probably the biggest hot spot for CIH outside of Asia. And thanks to one of the highest CD Burner to student ratios in the world and a general cross-pollination of files of all sorts, lets just say that the casualties were high and could have been much higher.<p>The little bastard got onto the network I dunno how long ago and since that fateful day got passed onto everyone. Come this morning, whoever booted up got absolutely nuked. The Admins managed to save the network before we lost the server or our personal partitions on the network drive, but the network is out indefinately. I'm accessing the forums via a little loophole thanks to a standalone Citrix Winterm system running NT. <br>There were also heavy losses on personal machines. My roomate, all his friends, and more than a dozen others I can recall offhand lost everything. There were heavy losses amongst the staff as well... the Math Dept.'s system went belly up.<p>The strange thing is that no Anti-Viruses picked it up even though Symantic and McAfee have had protection ever since last August, leading me to believe this was a mutant. <p>The moral of the story?<p>Be afraid. Be very afraid.<P>------------------<BR>"......"<br>�������������-The Breen at Internment Camp 371<p><p><p> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Coddman</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,3,26,21,16,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">April 26, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">09:16 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> YOU'RE TELLING ME? *LOL*.....<br>I was ONLINE when CIH.SPACEFILLER (A.K.A. "Chernobyl") v1.4 hit my computer. I was happily chatting on ICQ.......BOOM. 12:00Am. The virus spreaded through my system like wildfire, occupying every EXE in it's path. The funny thing is it didn't delete anything. It didn't wipe my F.A.T. It didn't clear my partitions. It didn't even wipe my Flash BIOS.......all it did was "squat" in EXE files and render them useless. Anyway, I went and got McCrappy's latest AntiVirus Software. It works like a charm, and I am now free of the virus, with no harm whatsoever done. <IMG SRC="http://solareclipse.net/Forums/smile.gif"> I tell ya, when it comes to viruses, I am one lucky son of a *****. Anyway.....here's the beef!!!! If you have WIN95.CIH.SPACEFILLER (AKA "Chernobyl") v1.4, YOU'RE TELLING ME? *LOL*.....<br>I was ONLINE when CIH.SPACEFILLER (A.K.A. "Chernobyl") v1.4 hit my computer. I was happily chatting on ICQ.......BOOM. 12:00Am. The virus spreaded through my system like wildfire, occupying every EXE in it's path. The funny thing is it didn't delete anything. It didn't wipe my F.A.T. It didn't clear my partitions. It didn't even wipe my Flash BIOS.......all it did was "squat" in EXE files and render them useless. Anyway, I went and got McCrappy's latest AntiVirus Software. It works like a charm, and I am now free of the virus, with no harm whatsoever done. <IMG SRC="http://solareclipse.net/Forums/smile.gif"> I tell ya, when it comes to viruses, I am one lucky son of a *****. Anyway.....here's the beef!!!! If you have WIN95.CIH.SPACEFILLER (AKA "Chernobyl") v1.4, <a href="http://search.shareware.com/code/engine/File?archive=sim-win95&file=virus%2fv98i402e%2ezip&size=8715642">CLICK THIS RESCUE LINK!!!!</a>. It is McCrappy's (Network Associates McAfee) latest VirusScan - version 4.0.2. It will rid your system of CIH, assuming you have any system left. It also has a funny newbie interface, to boot! <a href="http://search.shareware.com/code/engine/File?archive=sim-win95&file=virus%2fv98i402e%2ezip&size=8715642">Download Now</a> from <a href="http://www.shareware.com/" target="rgrgr435rt4">Shareware.Com</a><P>------------------<BR>I didn't do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can't prove a thing. :-) ....<br> <A HREF="http://codychat.hypermart.net/mahsurvey/" TARGET=_blank>http://codychat.hypermart.net/mahsurvey/</A> : Do you use a 28.8? A 56.6? <br> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Coddman</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,3,26,21,18,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">April 26, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">09:18 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> WTF . . . That message is just a LITTLE fragmented. <IMG SRC="http://solareclipse.net/Forums/frown.gif"><P>------------------<BR>I didn't do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can't prove a thing. :-) ....<br> <A HREF="http://codychat.hypermart.net/mahsurvey/" TARGET=_blank>http://codychat.hypermart.net/mahsurvey/</A> : Do you use a 28.8? A 56.6? <br> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Jeff Raven</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,3,26,21,22,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">April 26, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">09:22 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Ah, I feel for you, T_T, for it also attacked our network as well. There are reports of several hundred personal computers down all over campus. For some reason, the computers in the computer lab are unaffected. My computer contracted it last month, and since then I've cleaned my hard drive several times. I survived it, but many of my friends did not.<br>CIH, I have been told, rewrites one's Bios flash memory, filling it with gibberish. Common symptoms are messed up boot sectors, C: drive completely disappeared, etc. asking for a boot floppy.<p>Very nasty virus. And now I'm asked by many people for help, now that the virus has done its damage. I tell them I don't know how to fix it, all I know is how to prevent it. *shrugs* Oh well.<P>------------------<BR>Jeff Raven - Having more fun than any human being should be allowed to have <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>The Shadow</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,3,26,21,32,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">April 26, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">09:32 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> To anyone who has ever had a problem with viruses: <I>Get a Mac</I>.<p>------------------<br><A HREF="http://frankg.dgne.com/" TARGET=_blank>http://frankg.dgne.com/</A><br>Rodimus Prime: "No more jokes, Springer. Cybertron's in deadly danger. We're heading back there. Now."<br>Springer: "Yes sir, Mister Leader, sir."<p><small>[This message was edited by The Shadow on April 26, 1999.]</small> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Siegfried</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,3,26,21,50,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">April 26, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">09:50 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> But if you want to get work done get a PC with a really good virus scanner. And always take precautions people! <IMG SRC="http://solareclipse.net/Forums/smile.gif"><p>Chernobyl hit a few personal computers here, but nothing really bad happened. I'm surprised, too, because the information technology people run the U of H network with the skill of underdeveloped cavemen most of the time.<P>------------------<BR>"Some people call me the Space Cowboy. Yeah! Some call me the Gangster of Love. Some people call me Maurice. Whoo hoo! 'Cause I speak of the Pompatus of Love!" - Steve Miller Band's The Joker <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Tahna Los</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,3,27,12,17,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">April 27, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">12:17 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Why my computer can't be infected by the Chernobyl virus:<p>My Clock battery is dead, so the clock is essentially screwed. I usually reset the time now and again, but right now, the internal clock is at April 4, 1999. (I reset it quite a while ago)<p>And good thing too. LOA showed me a file which was a checker for the Chernobyl virus, so I downloaded it. Then, my idiot-of-a-brother brought home a disk with a program a friend of his had and loaded it onto our computer. Turns out that program did have the virus on it. Had my clock been at the correct date, we would have been screwed literally. I told my brother to smack his friend when he sees him tomorrow, he doesn't know why I am going overboard over this (yeah, like he nearly tried to crash our computer.....)<p>Oh, thanks for the file LOA. Saved my skin back there.<P>------------------<BR>I can resist anything.......<br>Except Temptation <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>The_Tom</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,3,27,16,53,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">April 27, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">04:53 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Frank: I'd rather have a PC that doesn't work on Apr. 26th than a Mac that never works. <IMG SRC="http://solareclipse.net/Forums/wink.gif"><P>------------------<BR>"......"<br>�������������-The Breen at Internment Camp 371<p><p><p> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>The Shadow</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,3,27,17,14,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">April 27, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">05:14 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Well, fine, get a Mac that does work, which is pretty much all of them. <IMG SRC="http://solareclipse.net/Forums/smile.gif"><P>------------------<BR> <A HREF="http://frankg.dgne.com/" TARGET=_blank>http://frankg.dgne.com/</A> <br>Rodimus Prime: "No more jokes, Springer. Cybertron's in deadly danger. We're heading back there. Now."<br>Springer: "Yes sir, Mister Leader, sir."<br> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Siegfried</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,3,28,2,10,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">April 28, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">02:10 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Quoting Frank: "Well, fine, get a Mac that does work, which is pretty much all of them."<p>Boy, do I have some Mac horror stories for you!<p> <IMG SRC="http://solareclipse.net/Forums/smile.gif"><P>------------------<BR>"Some people call me the Space Cowboy. Yeah! Some call me the Gangster of Love. Some people call me Maurice. Whoo hoo! 'Cause I speak of the Pompatus of Love!" - Steve Miller Band's The Joker <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Pedro</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,3,29,15,30,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">April 29, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">03:30 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I hate to say it, but avoiding computer viruses is just as easy as avoiding AIDS (easier, in fact *L*). You don't have unprotected sex with unknown parteners, do you? Well, the same holds true for computers, don't run programs from un-reliable/un-verified sources. Easy enough... <br /> </font> </td></tr> </table></td></tr></table> <br /> <br />
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