Does anyone have any published info on "Snow White"? I looked in several
virus and hoax sites and saw nothing related to that name.
The mechanism that 99.99% of all viruses use (in order to slow, impede or
stop internet/intranet/pc function) is the web itself. Toss one message out
to 8 people, who respond in kind to 8 more who respond to 64 and before you
know it, every computer user in the word has seen the picture of the
lumber-laden econobox from Maryland... Toss enough "inquiring minds ought
to be informed" messages out, and eventually the net slows down. If you saved
every horror story signed by the "Director of Security" your computer is
certainly going to be slower. My old 486 crashed once a few hours after
downloading an exe from a certified site. I sent out a thousand messages
that no doubt spanned the globe in an hour. The crash was purely
coincidental, due to a mechanical failure in the drive. So, I sent out
another bazillion sorry messages, clogging the sewers that carry the detritus
of the information superhighway....
Get a good virus scanner, and subscribe to one of the urban
legends/real virus sites. But be careful downloading - they might just have a
built in virus.... I heard that one computer virus checker is actually a hoax
and allows hackers to piggyback into everyone's hard drive....
Mark Childers
Director of Digital Security @ myhouse.inc
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