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VIRUS?????
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 9:58 pm
by Captain Ed
After installing the game yesterday this morning my Norton Antivirus software discovered a virus in a read-me file in My Documents folder the virus was called W32.GOBOT.A
do not know for sure if it came from WITP download but the game was the last thing I downloaded the file was unrepairable so it was deleted FYI[:(]
RE: VIRUS?????
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 10:00 pm
by Mr.Frag
W32.Gobot.A is a worm that spreads through IRC, open network shares, and file-sharing networks. The worm also propagates through any backdoors installed by the Mydoom family of worms.
Not from anything related to WitP or how you got it unless you opened up a firewall to be able to ...
RE: VIRUS?????
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 10:05 pm
by Captain Ed
Thank you for your response I did not want to cause concern but felt I should report it [:'(]
RE: VIRUS?????
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 11:00 pm
by Mr.Frag
Thank you for your response I did not want to cause concern but felt I should report it
Agreed, Virus's are a nasty part of life these days. Better safe then sorry.