JP Stones — Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:39:00 +0000

As far as I know I have never come accross this virus - I use an up to date Norton AV. Then again I rarely install much from the internet nowadays.
Lucky me
JP

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Carolyn Jones — Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:25:00 +0000

I'm just curious, what would happen if you changed the date on the computer??? Can you set the date on the 25th to be the 27th, then fix it again after the 26th has passed?
sorry again Vladislav

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Carolyn Jones — Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:18:00 +0000

sorry Vladislav for using your critique for a virus forum. I found that CIH virus in my computer in January (it was attached to EVERY exe file on my C drive. I also may have spread it to my sister . I got the fix "kill_cih" which stopped it from spreading. (that file only stops the virus from spreading it doesn't kill or remove it) my sister used that kill_cih file too but she didn't update her antivirus software despite my urging her to. Unfortunately her computer was DEAD when she woke up this morning. I'm not sure if it really was the virus and I don't have a more technically correct word for DEAD, but it looked pretty darn dead to me!

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lefean — Tue, 27 Apr 1999 04:59:00 +0000

Very Nice, yea

The only thing that bothers me is the ALT text on the homepage in the imagemaps, might cause confusion.

I'm not crazy about the color theme, but it works, maybe it's just my taste.

Anyway, otherwise it looks very neat, clear and it has a good feel to it

BRIAN — Tue, 27 Apr 1999 04:39:00 +0000

There's a program from Symantec that can find it an kill it if it is on your drive. The deadly one, as stated above, strikes on April 26th and I heard somewhere else June 26th. Tomorrow you should be fine
Anyway, the program is at:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/kill_cih.html
I recommend you download it.. it's small (24 KB), and will save a lot of time and money if you are infected.

davidzon — Tue, 27 Apr 1999 00:57:00 +0000

Howdy,

Thank you very much for all your kind comments. I really appreciate the feedback I've received. If you have something else to say about the site, please do post! I *really* appreciate this feedback.

I plan on doing some minor changes to the site, including making rounded corners, putting in contact information on every page, and changing the main page to be slightly brighter. If you have any other ideas, please tell me! Thanks again, I really do appreciate the feedback!

Sincerely,

Vladislav Davidzon, Consultant
Davidzon Network Technologies
http://www.davidzon.com

JP Stones — Mon, 26 Apr 1999 22:12:00 +0000

Oh, I see, how long does it stay active? Thanks Brian.
Maybe I will stay at home tomorow, cowering under my bedsheets!
JP

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BRIAN — Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:43:00 +0000

Information about the virus can be found here:
http://vil.mcafee.com/vil/vfi_4251.asp

quote:
The CIH virus (a.k.a. "Chernobyl") originated in Taiwan in early June 1998 and hits on the 26th of each month. The most prevalent and
dangerous form of the virus, CIH 1.2, appears once a year on April 26, the anniversary of the Russian nuclear accident.

CIH can destroy a hard drive by overwriting the first 1 MB of each hard disk on the system. It can also eliminate the ability for the computer to start up by overwriting some flash_BIOS chips and rewriting them with garbage.

JP Stones — Mon, 26 Apr 1999 18:36:00 +0000

quote:Sorry, please ignore this.

quote:Everyone be careful of any incoming e-mail attachments... There is supposed to be a really nasty virus going around that will strike tomorrow.

Heard about this myself, but I am slightly apprehensive because how would they know when this virus/worm will get released. Is the scum behind it setting an arrival date?
Just a thought.

Not much of a review here, sorry.
JP

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BRIAN — Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:08:00 +0000

Hi. I think that you made a good site design, and liked how you incorporated pictures into the nav bar. Also, Carolyn is right, the photomap is pointing to about.html I think, and that could be confusing. Maybe add a mouseover effect to the top nav bar... glowing around the text or pictures would look nice. I hope this helps

P.S. Kind of off subject, but:
Everyone be careful of any incoming e-mail attachments... There is supposed to be a really nasty virus going around that will strike tomorrow.

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