Sasser Author

According to p2pnet.net, the Sasser author did not know what he was doing. Tough banana, he should get a hefty penalty, to show others not to do it. The amount of computers I have seen lately that have his handywork all over them is considerable! The only good thing to come from all this is to raise awareness of patching systems and virus protection.

If in any doubt about an email, simply delete it, if it was important the person will get in touch somehow, or you could send them an email asking what the attachment was.

When you are looking at Internet Explorer, go to TOOLS, then WINDOWS UPDATE. Follow the on screen instructions and make sure of all the updates you get, it's the CRITICAL ones you need. If you do this, then some things like the Sasser Worm would not have affected you, as it only needs to see a computer on the internet to infect it. No email, no download, in fact, no user action is required at all on this one!

Do yourself a favor and keep your systems up to date, and then you can show off to all your skanky infected friends, by informing them loudly and proudly (and annoyingly) that you have had NO TROUBLE at all with any of this iccky virus whining they keep moaning about.



Sasser Worm, even people WITHOUT computers seem to have heard about this one.

Golden rules chaps..
Do NOT open attachments from people you do not know.
Even if it is someone you know, were you expecting it?
But of course, you will be scanning all incoming email with your virus protection software right?
And you are setting your virus scanner to actually be ON when windows starts?
And you are GETTING new virus definitions regularly?
Windows Update, you can never go there enough either!