Virus Warning.
Friday, June 6, 2003 by Jafo | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
A recent uploaded LiteSTEP theme by Dervi@nS0ul, entitled RmasterD_nL included 4 executables, including Litestep.exe all infected with the W32.Elkern.4926 virus.
I missed this prior to upload but have since contacted the author and removed the theme.
Norton 2003 had no difficulty locating them within the zip and dealing with them.
This just reinforces our general policy not to accept executable files within submissions.
2 recent LS uploads were as self-installing executables, so I removed them and requested the author upload zips instead....so he put the darn executables into zips....bloody twit...
LiteSTEP themes are far more appropriate in particular to be distributed as file-structured zips so that users can access the readme file/s etc PRIOR to all hell breaking loose.
It looks like even closer scrutiny is needed to prevent future occurrences of this sort...
remember...NO EXECUTABLES
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Reply #22 Friday, June 6, 2003 9:13 AM
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Reply #21 Friday, June 6, 2003 8:22 AM