ElectricAardvark opened this issue on Jun 15, 2002 ยท 34 posts
Alleycat169 posted Mon, 17 June 2002 at 1:59 PM
Attached Link: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.perrun.html
Well, until I actually see one myself I am not one to believe any virus warnings from anti-virus software manufacturers anymore. But I did do a quick search and found more hits suggesting it was real than a hoax. The funny thing is that Symantec's own data indicates it ONLY affects Windows and it's variants. Macs, Linux and Unix systems are immune to this virus. Like any virus though it has to be manually opened by someone stupid enough to open a strange jpg file in Outlook and Windows. All the anti-virus protection in the world won't save your network from one person like that. Face it guys, PC or no, Windows has got to go for the sake of the internet. ;-) Variants: W32.Perrun.dr Type: Virus Infection Length: 11,780 bytes Systems Affected: Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Me Systems Not Affected: Macintosh, Unix, Linux