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Excel virus takes aim at fantasy football fans

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  • 09-05-2006 3:35pm
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    Zoned
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    Watch out for this in the run up to the world cup....
    A new Microsoft Excel virus is targeting fantasy football league fans, luring them with an offer of worksheets to track the performance of their team.

    The XF97/Yagnuul.A virus can infect users' dot-xls spreadsheets once the attachment is opened. The virus deploys an infected fantasy league file on the computer's hard drive and may also modify a user's data, according to an alert on Monday from security company Sophos.

    more here....


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    NutJob
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    id give this a reallllyy low risk level as its an excel macro and requires macros to be enabled in excel which there not by default.

    It would be kinda hard to get caught by this anymore (post office 97 anyhow)


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