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Old September 18, 2001, 08:03 PM
Dan Butler
 
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Default Re: Easy to Avoid...

Don --

Sorry to hear of your problem. For everyone here is the easy way to avoid this virus. Don't use a Microsoft product to surf the web or read your mail! Notice this:

>Nimda -- Admin backwards -- only infects computers running a
>Microsoft operating system and Microsoft's e-mail, Web browser or
>Web server applications.

If you surf using Netscape or Opera you won't pick this up from visiting a web page. If you use Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express to read your mail I would turn them off before surfing the web. And let Microsoft know you tired of these viruses infecting your system every other week.

I ran a report on our sites on the last Microsoft "virus", CodeRed. It was really bogging things down. Not infecting anything just all the attempts to infect our server.

-- Dan Butler
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