OT new virus out

a new one is on the loose, please update your virus scanners
as this is spreading fast. Ive already recieved 50+ lol

your infected if you recieved it or checked your mail. period!

so update and get it clean! please?



MIMAIL/MyDoom/Novarg Email Virus Continues

Beginning about 5 pm EST (2200 UTC) yesterday we began receiving a flood
of email containing a malicious attachment. To visually see what has
been arriving at our servers, we have two graphs available. We are
showing emails per 10 minutes at http://isc.sans.org/images/virus.png
and emails per hour at http://isc.sans.org/images/virus2.png . Notice
the drop-off overnight followed by the rapid increase this morning as
people came to work. There was a spike for the east coast workers and
another increase as the west coast came to work. The time across the
bottom is EST. Today's increase started at about 8 am Central European
time, again corresponding roughly to the time workers began opening
their mail. This afternoon there has been a gradual decrease as the
infected computers are brought under control. While no new variants have
been detected yet, it would not be
unexpected to see modified versions appear in the next few days.

A very detailed writeup of the events surrounding this malware
including analysis and discussions by
the Trojan Horses Research Mailing List is available online at
http://www.math.org.il/newworm-digest1.txt




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KenCo wrote:

a new one is on the loose, please update your virus scanners
as this is spreading fast. Ive already recieved 50+ lol

your infected if you recieved it or checked your mail. period!

Nope. Need to open the attachment.

Safe viewer Irfanview:

http://www.pricelessware.org/2003/PL...PHICS.htm#A426

It's my default for *everything* it will handle. I think it needs a
couple of plug ins because of copyright problems.

so update and get it clean! please?

Foxmail.

http://www.pricelessware.org/2003/PL...ERNET.htm#A343



Removing IE or OE will also close most loopholes, as will changing the
bindings.
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg

Art Kopp (alt.comp.freeware and alt.comp.virus) is good people and one
of the early progammers. He has a lot of good info for the DOS based
windows programs, but it looks like he is fading off with the new NT
based M$ programs.

In article , KenCo says...


a new one is on the loose, please update your virus scanners
as this is spreading fast. Ive already recieved 50+ lol

your infected if you recieved it or checked your mail. period!

very hard to buy into that one, you can not get the worm virus by receiving
email, In order to get it you must click on the attachment period. Too many
people believe everything they read or hear about this from misinformed people
and help spread their original message without seeking the facts themselves.

The reason that a virus is so sucessful is people are generally stupid and naive
when it comes to them. I never run virus software and never open up anything
that does not come in a picture or text, without knowlegde that I am getting
something else. Quit being stupid people and openening **** that can damage
your computer. Is it really going to kill you to have to delete the eamil
without reading it? DAH

so update and get it clean! please?



MIMAIL/MyDoom/Novarg Email Virus Continues

Beginning about 5 pm EST (2200 UTC) yesterday we began receiving a flood
of email containing a malicious attachment. To visually see what has
been arriving at our servers, we have two graphs available. We are
showing emails per 10 minutes at http://isc.sans.org/images/virus.png
and emails per hour at http://isc.sans.org/images/virus2.png . Notice
the drop-off overnight followed by the rapid increase this morning as
people came to work. There was a spike for the east coast workers and
another increase as the west coast came to work. The time across the
bottom is EST. Today's increase started at about 8 am Central European
time, again corresponding roughly to the time workers began opening
their mail. This afternoon there has been a gradual decrease as the
infected computers are brought under control. While no new variants have
been detected yet, it would not be
unexpected to see modified versions appear in the next few days.

A very detailed writeup of the events surrounding this malware
including analysis and discussions by
the Trojan Horses Research Mailing List is available online at
http://www.math.org.il/newworm-digest1.txt




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Linux (SuSE 8.2) user #329121
Please Note: No trees or animals were harmed in the
sending of this contaminant free message We do concede
that a signicant number of electrons may have been
inconvenienced

MrKnowitall wrote:

very hard to buy into that one, you can not get the worm virus by receiving
email, In order to get it you must click on the attachment period.

The idea you can get viruses by reading e-mail is related to the
difficulty in being certain that the e-mail program in use is text
only. The e-mail program authors keep putting extra capabilities in
the programs, and adding this to the upgrades. I suspect pressure from
spammers and big business who want to send advertisements (certainly
not the users with any sense).

Result? Big, wide open, back door for mal-ware.