There’s a report at the BBC’s site about a new virus which “comes back from the dead” if you don’t delete all of it. One thing struck me when reading this report:<\/p>\n
The infectious attachments bearing the virus code try to hide by labelling themselves as either a screensaver (scr), batch (bat), information (pif) or command (com) file.<\/p>\n
Anyone clicking on the attachment could leave themselves open to more infections as the virus disables many of the security features used to keep machines virus free.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Why is it that Windoze apparently can’t tell whether a file is a batch file or a proper executable? It’s a very easy thing to tell as a batch file is plain text! No wonder this operating system can’t offer much virus protection …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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