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       DONT SWEAT Y2K VIRUSES
       By: eba95 Date: July 25, 2010, 7:47 am
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       the hour of doom approaches, it's
       starting to look like the big bad Y2K
       problem will be no big deal after all.
       As long as we all remain calm, leave
       our money in the banks, and spend
       Saturday, January 1, sipping cold
       beer and watching football,
       tranquility will undoubtedly prevail
       on earth. The Dalai Lama has even
       declared that 1/1/2000 will be a day
       like any other.
       Of course, that hasn't stopped the
       antivirus software industry from
       discovering an insidious, and
       potentially lucrative, new threat: Y2K
       hoax viruses. Hackers are cooking up
       viruses that use millennium bug
       warnings as a ruse to trick users into
       infecting their systems. A Symantec
       antivirus researcher stated publicly
       that as many as 200,000 such viruses
       could afflict us by the turn of the
       century. And Network Associates
       dedicates a Web page to e-mail
       trojan horse.
       Don't get your knickers in a twist
       over this one, though. Sure, Y2K
       hoax viruses and trojan horses will
       turn up--Microsoft has already
       reported an "scare-mongering." But
       these viruses are no different from
       any others. One antivirus vendor,
       Sophos, declares its competitors'
       Y2K virus warnings Computer Virus
       Myths site. Common sense also
       prevails at virus curmudgeon Rob
       Rosenberg's Microsoft's fix-it
       download site.
       To avoid infection from Y2K hoax
       viruses (or any other kind), take the
       same actions you normally would:
       Keep your antivirus software up-to-
       date, avoid sharing floppy disks with
       others, and don't launch executable
       files or scriptable documents (like
       Word or Excel files) until you've
       scanned them for viruses.
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