Re: Is it be possible to get a virus via a Microsoft download?

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 10/27/03 

Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 21:20:48 -0700

Greetings --

   If you've connected the PC to the Internet without having first
enabling a firewall, without having first installed an antivirus
application with current virus definition files, and/or before
installing the KB824146 Hotfix, you're very likely to have been
infected from any of the thousands of PCs on the Internet that are
constantly broadcasting the Blaster and/or Welchia worms. It only
takes a few seconds of exposure.

Bruce Chambers 

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"Kenny" <ksdaniels@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:06ba01c39c2a$69d21140$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Tonight I installed Norton System Works 2004. Next I ran a
> full scan on the system which came up clean.
> Then I went to Microsoft's update web site and downloaded
> all the current patches & updates for XP. During the
> download, Norton jumped in and identified a
> virus: "W32WELCHIA.WORM" and said that it affected the
> file: "DLL HOST.EXE".
> I have had the alert come up several times since. I am not
> sure what the file "DLL HOST.EXE" does, but all
> indications are that it is damaged and cannot be repaired.
> Can I get a virus while downloading from MICROSOFT'S
> website?
>
> Kenny

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