| VIRUS WARNING!!!! [message #24063] |
Sun, 08 June 2003 10:52  |
newacct
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Apparently I have heard someone has infected a user made map with VBS.LOVELETTER. As most anyone will tell u this is a common yet annoying virus. It infects almost all files especially .JPG, .GIF .BMP and since u need one of those to serve as a SS for the map, when the map is xfered over, you get the virus as well. I heard about 4 people saying this but they didn't say a map name so it could all be a hoax, just be wary what u d/l.
Also is there someway server side that the map and acomanying SS to serve as minimap are scanned for viruses/unknown malicious scripts and terminated if such a thing is found
Arghh ready for battle
The coundown has begun, will you command or be conquered?
If knowledge is contagious Stupidity must be an epidemic.....
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| VIRUS WARNING!!!! [message #24078] |
Sun, 08 June 2003 12:25  |
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General Havoc
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Apparently I heard that people have these programs called virus checkers installed on there computers. Also the map would have to be in a self extracting exe file to cause any immediate harm. The chances of a mix file being infected and the virus actually being executed by ren solely from the mix file is slim.
Unless people are that dumb to open files called readme.exe then you should be pretty safe. Normally viruses have to actually be executed to actuallt cause harm to anything, sitting inside a mix file isn't going to acheive much.
_General Havoc
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| VIRUS WARNING!!!! [message #24083] |
Sun, 08 June 2003 12:38 |
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you seriously gotta be dumb.
I suck cock and love it... absolutely love it. And I just got banned for being too immature to be allowed to post here.
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| VIRUS WARNING!!!! [message #24097] |
Sun, 08 June 2003 14:54 |
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ArUsH4nIl
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lol, dude, its a hoax.
Read this article on PlanetCnC.
Virus Hoax Comment!
Saturday, June 7, 2003, 11:26 | Dario
Update by HeXetic: This is a hoax. Absolutely NO known viruses infect JPG, GIF, BMP, etc. Although viruses frequently try to fool people into thinking that they're a JPG or GIF or BMP by clever naming tricks, computers are not fooled. No known security vulnerabilities exist in the TGA (Targa) format used by Generals for map previews. This hoax has been repeated in past RTS games that allowed downloading (Starcraft, Warcraft III) and is equally idiotic and unfeasable here. Try reading my good old Tech Troopers article on viruses for some sanity.
See?, so No Sweat!
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| VIRUS WARNING!!!! [message #24479] |
Wed, 11 June 2003 19:08 |
Dunt
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what about the mp3 virus spoken about on the Symantec web site a coupla weeks ago ??
They aint executables 
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