I was doing some surfing last night, looking at different cgi scripts on different sites. Before I went to bed I ran my virsus scanner and learned that I had picked up the VBS Love Letter virus in .jpg form. I assume it must have been in a cookie. I am not sure how it got by my virus scanner as it is supposed to protect me while I am surfing. I am using Norton 2002.
I don't recall what the Love Letter virus does, but if I recall correctly, it is a dangerous virus.
This is the first time I have picked up a virus when browsing and I thought virus's were in .exe file form, but according to my virus scanner this was in .jpg form. Is this something new?
Anyhow if you are surfing strange sites, it may pay to run your virus scanner afterwards.
By the way I, quarentined and then deleted the virus, but I didn't know if that would actually kill it, so I took the few hours that it takes to wipe my hard drive so I assume it is completely gone. Am I right in this assumption?
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XXX Galore