[alberg30] This worm virus thing

[alberg30]

 I certainly am not a computer wizard, but here's what I know about this computer virus thing. Someone please correct me if I mis-speak.

After seeing this worm virus appear in a msg sent by Towney and then myself (ref: Blue water sailing article-huge file and the bronze castings), I then got an email from my father in Dallas. He caught the same virus weeks before from one of his antique motorcycle groups' servers. He suggested I go to this web site and read up on the "kak.html" worm virus.

The web site is:

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/wscript.kakworm.html

This is part of the Norton Anti-virus website. Very interesting. George appears to be correct when he suggests setting your email and browser they do not automatically read scripts and then execute programs (html or otherwise.)

You can do this by going into options under your browser and deactivating the automatic execution of Java, ActiveX, etc scripts. Your email may also have an options folder that allows this.

Also, to check if you have acquired this virus, you should click on START, while in Windows, then choose, FIND, and look for the following files on your hard drive. Look for KAK or KAK.html. There were a total of three or four files hidden on my hard drive that were part of this virus. My version of Norton AntiVirus did not find them in its own independent search, but my version is quite old. Delete these files when you find them. 

Then at the above sight, I went to the Microsoft updates site and downloaded a few updates for Microsoft Windows 95/98, that supposedly prevent the automatic loading of these types of worm viruses. It seems to be working so far. I have not caught the KAK virus again.

Just some thoughts, maybe someone knows better,

Joe #499
"One Less Traveled"
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