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Unfortunately there have been a lot of people on IRC chat who are getting infected with viruses and backdoors into their computers. These are certified by us as being the places to get cleaned up the quickest. nohack.net and moosoft.com.
Please do not run vbs,pif,js,bat,exe,com, and other such unrecognizable file types you receive from anyone.

Symantec AntiVirus research Center SARC is committed to providing swift, global responses to computer virus threats, proactively researching and developing technologies that eliminate such threats and educating the public on safe computing practices.

Top 10 Most Reported Viruses from TechWeb WildList's top 10 most commonly reported viruses in July 1998. Descriptions of the various viruses are based on the online encyclopedias provided by Symantec and Trend Micro.

Virus Central Dr Solomon's - Everything you need to know about Viruses. Search for info on any Virus by Name.

The top 10 Viruses - Jan 1998 - as compiled by Dr Solomon's Software

Virus Information Library McAfee's Virus library.

Network Associates Virus Info & Technical Documentation Library; Virus Information, Virus Alerts Virus By Name, Virus By Type, Viruses By Payload Activation Date, Virus Hoax Information, Virus Hoaxes, Virus Research, NAI Labs Virus Research Department, Technical Documentation, Antivirus Terminology, Technical Documents, Search.

IBM's own virus pages. IBM and Symantec Corporation have combined forces to jointly develop and deliver a family of anti-virus products under the Norton AntiVirus brand name.

F-Secure Anti-Virus is the most comprehensive real-time and on-demand virus scanning and protection system for all Windows platforms. Or so they claim ! I found it VERY lame that they use this to get corporate clients: Data Fellows Offers Free Anti-Virus License Swap
for Corporate Customers of Dr. Solomon's.

BEWARE and BE AWARE IF YOU RUN INTO A VIRUS LIKE THESE BELOW:
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The Etisalat virus...turns your Pentium 233 MMX into a XT286 33MHz Proxy server.
The FM92 virus...makes your CD drive repeat the first track indefinitely.
The UK/US virus...Turns the text on your monitor to White on White.
The Members Only virus...Turns the text on your monitor to Black on Black.
Micheal Jackson Virus...Turns the text on your monitor slowly from Black to White.
Ted Turner virus....Colorizes your monochrome monitor.
The Orouba virus...Turn your mIRC into Pirch
The Ellen DeGeneres virus...Your IBM suddenly claims it's a MAC
Monica Lewinsky virus...Sucks all the memory out of your computer
Bill Clinton virus...Accepts your disks but denies reading them.
Hillary Clinton Virus...Makes all your files disappear and then one year later they mysteriously reappear in a different directory
Titanic virus...makes your whole computer go down
Disney Virus...makes your computer go Goofy
Mike Tyson Virus...Quits after one byte
Prozac virus...Screws up your RAM but your processor doesn't care
Sharon Stone virus...Makes a huge initial impact, then you forget it's there
Lorena Bobbit virus...Turns your hard disk into a 3.5 floppy
Woody Allen virus...Bypasses the motherboard and turns on a daughter card
Saddam Hussein virus...Won't let you in to any program
Tonya Harding virus...Turns your BAT files into lethal weapons
Joey Buttafuocco virus...Only attacks minor files
Spice Girl virus...Has no real function, but makes a pretty desktop
Ronald Reagan virus...Saves your data, but forgets where it stored it.
Dr. Krevorkian virus...searches your hard drive for old files and deletes them.
Sony Bono virus...Just when you get surfing the web, a firewall appears out of nowhere.
Martha Stewart virus...Takes all your files, sorts them by category and folds them into cute little doilies to be displayed on your desktop.
Oprah Winfrey virus...Your 200MB hard drive shrinks to 80MB and then slowly expands to 300MB.
AT&T virus...Every 3 minutes it tells you what great service you're getting.
MCI virus... every 3 minutes it reminds you that you're paying too much for the AT&T virus
Arnold Schwarzenegger virus...Terminates and stays resident..."it'll be back"
Viagra virus...Expands your Hard Drive.
Adam & Eve Virus...Takes a couple of bytes out of your apple.
Oedipus Virus...Your computer becomes obsessed with marrying its own motherboard
Oliver North Virus...Causes your printer to become a paper shredder
POLITICALLY CORRECT VIRUS...Never identifies itself as a "virus," but instead refers to itself as an "electronic micro - organism."
RIGHT-TO-LIFE VIRUS...Won't allow you to delete a file, regardless of how young it is. If you attempt to erase a file, it requires you to first see a counselor about possible alternatives.
GOVERNMENT ECONOMIST VIRUS...Nothing works, but all your diagnostic software says everything is fine.
NEW WORLD ORDER VIRUS...Probably harmless, but it makes alot of people really mad just thinking about it.
FEDERAL BUREAUCRAT VIRUS...Divides your hard disk into hundreds of little units, each of which does practically nothing, but all of which claim to be the most important part of your computer.
GALLUP VIRUS...Sixty percent of the PC's infected will lose 30 percent of their data 14 percent of the time (plus or minus a 3.5 percent margin of error).
CONGRESSIONAL VIRUS...The computer locks up, and the screen splits in half with the same message appearing on each side of the screen. The message says that the blame for the gridlock is caused by the other side.
AIRLINE LUGGAGE VIRUS...You're in Dubai, but your data is in Singapore.
FREUDIAN VIRUS...Your computer becomes obsessed with marrying its own motherboard.
ELVIS VIRUS...Your computer gets fat, slow, and lazy, then self destructs; only to resurface at shopping malls and service stations across rural America.
NIKE VIRUS...Just does it.
STAR TREK VIRUS... Invades your system in places where no virus has gone before.
HEALTH CARE VIRUS...Tests your system for a day, finds nothing wrong, and sends a bill for $4,500.
GEORGE BUSH VIRUS...It starts by boldly stating, "Read my docs..no new files!" on the screen. It proceeds to fill up all the free space on your hard drive with new files, then blames it on the Congressional virus.
WIN98 Virus...After upgrading this virus it makes all other viruses fail to work and makes your Pentium II 400 MHz machine perform like a 286AT until you add more memory.

Ok, on a less serious note.
Check this out in the order I've shown and watch the drama unfold.

Lockdown 2000 The Ultimate Internet Protection Software! - Press release.

Internet Security Software - Protection From Hackers - Major Security Hole In The Net

The article posted to a discussion list.

The reply about this hole in your system, which should give you some peace of mind.

Keep following the thread there or else click here and then here ,and the punch line.

And just when you thought it was all over, here is the Lockdown story in such detail that it makes your head spin as to what fraudsters can do to the gullible ! Fascination reading that culminates in Lockdown trying to shut down sites exposing it.

Click here to see if your computer is vulnerable. I have tried it myself, so, feel safe, or if you doubt me go to the page that leads there.

So, a little bit of a scare leads you to find funny truths.

If you still feel like knowing more about backdoors and exploits, go to:

rootshell.com

This came up along the way. God knows what it does.

Rhino9 - Security Research Team - Legion v2.1

Email the Page construction Team

Please note that the channel #Dubai home pages are sponsored by your patronage of the link
http://etisalat.charges.too.much.net

Counter installed 24 Jan 1999 and hits so far!

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BEWARE and BE AWARE IF YOU RUN INTO A VIRUS LIKE THESE BELOW: Press the RELOAD button on your Browser to see the latest Updates. Last updated 24 January 1999

The Etisalat virus...turns your Pentium 233 MMX into a XT286 33MHz Proxy server.

The FM92 virus...makes your CD drive repeat the first track indefinitely.

The UK/US virus...Turns the text on your monitor to White on White.

The Members Only virus...Turns the text on your monitor to Black on Black.

Micheal Jackson Virus...Turns the text on your monitor slowly from Black to White.

Ted Turner virus....Colorizes your monochrome monitor.

The Orouba virus...Turn your mIRC into Pirch

The Ellen DeGeneres virus...Your IBM suddenly claims it's a MAC

Monica Lewinsky virus...Sucks all the memory out of your computer

Bill Clinton virus...Accepts your disks but denies reading them.

Hillary Clinton Virus...Makes all your files disappear and then one year later they mysteriously reappear in a different directory

Titanic virus...makes your whole computer go down

Disney Virus...makes your computer go Goofy

Mike Tyson Virus...Quits after one byte

Prozac virus...Screws up your RAM but your processor doesn't care

Sharon Stone virus...Makes a huge initial impact, then you forget it's there

Lorena Bobbit virus...Turns your hard disk into a 3.5 floppy

Woody Allen virus...Bypasses the motherboard and turns on a daughter card

Saddam Hussein virus...Won't let you in to any program

Tonya Harding virus...Turns your BAT files into lethal weapons

Joey Buttafuocco virus...Only attacks minor files

Spice Girl virus...Has no real function, but makes a pretty desktop

Ronald Reagan virus...Saves your data, but forgets where it stored it.

Dr. Krevorkian virus...searches your hard drive for old files and deletes them.

Sony Bono virus...Just when you get surfing the web, a firewall appears out of nowhere.

Martha Stewart virus...Takes all your files, sorts them by category and folds them into cute little doilies to be displayed on your desktop.

Oprah Winfrey virus...Your 200MB hard drive shrinks to 80MB and then slowly expands to 300MB.

AT&T virus...Every 3 minutes it tells you what great service you're getting.

MCI virus... every 3 minutes it reminds you that you're paying too much for the AT&T virus

Arnold Schwarzenegger virus...Terminates and stays resident..."it'll be back"

Viagra virus...Expands your Hard Drive.

Adam & Eve Virus...Takes a couple of bytes out of your apple.

Oedipus Virus...Your computer becomes obsessed with marrying its own motherboard

Oliver North Virus...Causes your printer to become a paper shredder

POLITICALLY CORRECT VIRUS...Never identifies itself as a "virus," but instead refers to itself as an "electronic micro - organism."

RIGHT-TO-LIFE VIRUS...Won't allow you to delete a file, regardless of how young it is. If you attempt to erase a file, it requires you to first see a counselor about possible alternatives.

GOVERNMENT ECONOMIST VIRUS...Nothing works, but all your diagnostic software says everything is fine.

NEW WORLD ORDER VIRUS...Probably harmless, but it makes alot of people really mad just thinking about it.

FEDERAL BUREAUCRAT VIRUS...Divides your hard disk into hundreds of little units, each of which does practically nothing, but all of which claim to be the most important part of your computer.

GALLUP VIRUS...Sixty percent of the PC's infected will lose 30 percent of their data 14 percent of the time (plus or minus a 3.5 percent margin of error).

CONGRESSIONAL VIRUS...The computer locks up, and the screen splits in half with the same message appearing on each side of the screen. The message says that the blame for the gridlock is caused by the other side.

AIRLINE LUGGAGE VIRUS...You're in Dubai, but your data is in Singapore.

FREUDIAN VIRUS...Your computer becomes obsessed with marrying its own motherboard.

ELVIS VIRUS...Your computer gets fat, slow, and lazy, then self destructs; only to resurface at shopping malls and service stations across rural America.

NIKE VIRUS...Just does it.

STAR TREK VIRUS... Invades your system in places where no virus has gone before.

HEALTH CARE VIRUS...Tests your system for a day, finds nothing wrong, and sends a bill for $4,500.

GEORGE BUSH VIRUS...It starts by boldly stating, "Read my docs..no new files!" on the screen. It proceeds to fill up all the free space on your hard drive with new files, then blames it on the Congressional virus.

WIN98 Virus...After upgrading this virus it makes all other viruses fail to work and makes your Pentium II 400 MHz machine perform like a 286AT until you add more memory.

BEWARE and BE AWARE IF YOU RUN INTO A VIRUS LIKE THESE BELOW:
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