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by mrafrohead

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I got this e-mail this morning. I have done a little looking and have not come up with a confirmation.

Please tell me if you have heard of this or anything you can plz...

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The Russian news agency, Novosti, has reported Kaspersky Labs has warned about a large-scale virus attack on the Internet that might be delivered by Islamic terrorists on August 26.

http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=4759214&startrow=11&date=2004-08-24&do_alert=0

Anyone have any more information on this?

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I didn't include any of the senders information as I don't think that it would be polite to include in an open forum...

But I did not write this.

Any input is much appreciated!

Mrafrohead

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by oz_media

Wel after searchin gKasperky labs for info and several other well known threat sites I found nothing.

When checking for Virus HOAXES, the hits came flooding in.

Here's a link to VMyth's conclusions.
http://www.vmyths.com/hoax.cfm?id=281&page=3

[i]"Vmyths dismisses this "Internet Terrorist Attack" story as baseless hysteria, for numerous reasons explained below.[/i]

Apparently Kaspersky was mistranslated, one news agency quoted another news agency and Russians news agencies have "dissolved into sensationalist tabloids since the breakup of the Soviet Union."

This is seen as a hoax.

by mrafrohead

As glad as I am to see that, I'm kinda bothered as I actually forwarded that to some people...

Bleh...

Thanks for the help, I can't believe that I checked where I checked, but didn't think to look there...

I hope that they're right...

Mrafrohead

by sleepin'dawg

So your a belt and suspenders type of guy when it comes to security; so what. I work on the basis it's better to have it and not need it than it is to need it and not have it. If you have your firewalls, both software and hardware, in place and have changed the default passwords plus your anti-virus database is up to date; why worry? You might want to have Hijack Blaster, Spyware Blaster, Spybot S&D and AdAware installed but if you've kept the firewalls up to date as well as the database you should be in reasonable shape. You could be even safer if you had your system restore tools ready to go just in case but they're not crucial as you can always download what you don't have later.

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