Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/25

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Subject: [Leica] Re: W32 SillyWorm
From: leowesson at gmail.com (leo wesson)
Date: Wed Feb 25 19:37:12 2009
References: <200902252237.n1PMbF1C099695@server1.waverley.reid.org> <05207700-A562-4137-B6C6-04FB4EFB5EF3@optonline.net>

It wasn't in the video file, i shot the video and edited it on my mac.
My gut feeling is that it wasn't my problem, i just hate that it happened
when I was delivering a file.  Next time, they get a dvd.

Leo Wesson
Photographer/Videographer
817.733.9157
www.leowessson.com


On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin
<lrzeitlin@optonline.net>wrote:

>
> On Feb 25, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Leo wrote:
>
>  So a client gave me a usb pen drive to copy a video file to and when she
>> tried to load it, there was this  W32 SillyWorm on it.  I wasn't the only
>> one to use the pen drive today.  I 'm on a mac, is there any chance that I
>> was the source of this worm?  Is there any chance I got the worm from the
>> pen drive?  As a mac person should i be running any virus checks?  I just
>> always assume that the frequent updates from apple take care of all
>> this...
>>
>> Leo Wesson
>> Photographer/Videographer
>> 817.733.9157
>>
>
>
> If the client uses a PC and you use a Mac, the worm was either on the
> client's computer or in the video file. Or possibly in the computer of the
> previous person who used the pen drive. To the best of my knowledge there 
> is
> no virus that will infect both Macs and PCs. Of course there are worms 
> which
> are specific to software programs like MS Word. It wouldn't hurt to get a
> current copy of a virus checking program for the Mac and run it from time 
> to
> time but the probability of Mac infection is low.
>
> Larry Z
>
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In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Re: W32 SillyWorm)