I've read that the potential for new and deadly viruses to hit during the rollover is very high. Is there a site or article that describes this situation a little more clearly or in depth?

-- Familyman (prepare@home.com), December 02, 1999

Answers

Familyman:

See http://www.mcafee .com/viruses/explorezip.pak/

This recent alert is simply an old virus packaged in a new and threatening way.

-- Arnie Rimmer (Arnie_Rimmer@usa.net), December 02, 1999.

I should have added that the specific virus mentioned above is in no way related to Y2K other than its appearance at this time (i.e. it is not date-triggered).

But it is real and yet another pain in the side of network system administrators.

There has been a lot of speculation that mal-intentioned programmers would unleash a higher than usual round of viruses to celebrate 2000.

I can't say we are seeing any increase yet at our location - we deal with viruses regularly here ("Whaddaya mean "I disabled virus scanning on my machine" ??!!!)

-- Arnie Rimmer (Arnie_Rimmer@usa.net), December 02, 1999.

Arnie:

Thanks. I was just curious. I'm guessing we won't know what the damage is until Jan 3rd. When everyone "might" return to work.

-- Familyman (prepare@home.com), December 02, 1999.