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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / January 2004OT: Virus
Just received this message that I thought I would pass on to everyone: All - big new virus out. I just received. Subject: hi it's a file that reads: text.zip says it's binary DELETE. More on MSNBC.com Copy of the F-Secure Alert/Press Release on this new virus......update your antivirus programs.......not all of them have the definitions so far. My EZ Trust just got them now. Cheers......Heather -------------------------------------------------- New "Mydoom" worm launching a world-wide attack F-Secure is warning email users around the world about a new Windows worm which is spreading rapidly. The new worm, known as Mydoom or Novarg, is spreading through email attachments and Kazaa file sharing networks. The worm has launched a world-wide denial-of-service attack from every infected computer against the website of SCO, one of the largest Unix vendors in the world. However, the WWW.SCO.COM site seems to be still operational. There's been a lot of discussion about SCO after they claimed last December that the Linux operating system was violating SCO's intellectual property rights in UNIX technology. "There are a lot of kids out there who feel like SCO's attacking them", comments Mikko Hypponen, Director of Anti-Virus Research at F-Secure Corporation. "Apparently someone of them decided that it's ok attack back." In addition of the denial-of-service attack, the worm also opens up a backdoor to infected computers by listening to TCP port 3176. This way the worm author can gain access to infected computers afterwards. The emails sent by the worm are fairly random: From: <random email address> To: <address of the recipient> Subject: <random words> Message body: (several different mail error messages, such as:) Mail transaction failed. Partial message is available. Attachment (with a textfile icon): random name ending with ZIP, BAT, CMD, EXE, PIF or SCR extension. When a user clicks on the attachment, the worm will start Notepad, filled with random characters and it will immediately start to spread further. Detailed technical description of the worm as well as screenshots are available in the F-Secure Virus Description Database at http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/novarg.shtml F-Secure Anti-Virus can detect and stop the Mydoom worm. F-Secure Anti-Virus can be downloaded from http://www.f-secure.com F-Secure will also be releasing a free tool which can be used to remove Mydoom from infected systems. > Just received this message that I thought I would pass on to everyone: > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > More on MSNBC.com That would be YOURDoom, not MYDoom. Another moment in history when I'm sooo happy to be a Macintosh user ... Larry > Copy of the F-Secure Alert/Press Release on this new virus......update > your antivirus programs.......not all of them have the definitions so > far. My EZ Trust just got them now. > > Cheers......Heather > -------------------------------------------------- Larry.......Macs get viruses too!! Not many, but my daughter is a graphic artist and has two of them......both G-Macs. She has Norton on her main one and practices 'safe hex' all de same, mon. 8-)) You may not get "infected" with a virus......but you sure as hell can pass them on......(G) Want a copy of the MAC FAQ from England by a fellow on the antivirus news group?? Granted, you rarely get them.....but never say "never". Cheers......a happy WinME user (who has had XP sitting here for a year and not about to give up WinME for it......I plan to dual boot, maybe). Heather > That would be YOURDoom, not MYDoom. > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Cheers......Heather > > -------------------------------------------------- In article <EZERb.30624$9Ce1.8751@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>, Heather <nospamplease@nospam.invalid> wrote: > You may not get "infected" with a virus......but you sure as hell can > pass them on......(G) Giving is always better than receiving. I like the odds better with my Macintosh We don¹t 55, 000+ viruses. Dan > In article > <EZERb.30624$9Ce1.8751@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>, Heather [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > I like the odds better with my Macintosh We don¹t 55, 000+ viruses. > Dan Chuckling here.......as an 'antivirus guru' I don't get infected either. But I sure get lots thrown my way from the Genealogy Lists I run. Been lucky with this new one......I have trained 'my people' well and so far, so good. But getting a few emails from people who think they are infected. NO....it is probably some other idiot who is and the virus 'raids' the Address Books. But according to the Press Releases I got, ONE IN TEN emails were this virus yesterday.......sheesh!! Off to do some genealogy..... Cheers......Auntie Virus and if anyone needs any help, my slightly munged real address is... heatherfig at rogers dot com. I'm curious, Heather, were the viruses your daughter got written to exploit Microsoft Office applications? If not, what OS does she use? I would be interested in the FAQ, thanks. You can send it to me by subsituting Hotmail for the munge above --- the otfiddler is real. Thanks again, Larry > Larry.......Macs get viruses too!! Not many, but my daughter is a > graphic artist and has two of them......both G-Macs. She has Norton on [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Want a copy of the MAC FAQ from England by a fellow on the antivirus > news group?? Granted, you rarely get them.....but never say "never". When she first got her GMac (OS 9.2, I believe), some 2+ years ago......she got whatever virus was going around at the time in the Outlook Express mail programme. I am not sure if she has MS Office on there, probably but I will ask. My mind left me earlier today, grin. She has loads of those expensive ones like Illustrator and PhotoShop, etc. As you can't 'right click' and check Properties, I told her how to get rid of it.......remember, she was new to computers and panicking a bit. Must have been Bugbear because an attachment one she could delete, no problem. (there was HTML coding in the email, no attachment, for those that don't remember Bugbear) I shall dig out his last FAQ, but I warn you that it is LONG and it has OLD information. But I guess not that much changes with Macs. I did find some news groups for Macs when Elayne's hard drive was crashing and they were quite helpful. I will forward the link to your Hotmail address, FWIW.....grin. Heather > I'm curious, Heather, were the viruses your daughter got written to > exploit Microsoft Office applications? If not, what OS does she use? [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Want a copy of the MAC FAQ from England by a fellow on the antivirus > > news group?? Granted, you rarely get them.....but never say "never". Tell her to ditch all the Micro$oft apps and she'll have no more viruses until script kiddies decide to exploit AppleScript. FYI: "ctrl + click" on a Mac produces a hierarchical menu similar to a right-click on a PeeCee. Ctrl-click + Get Info equals right-click + Properties. Larry > When she first got her GMac (OS 9.2, I believe), some 2+ years > ago......she got whatever virus was going around at the time in the [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > they were quite helpful. I will forward the link to your Hotmail > address, FWIW.....grin. I've been a MS user since I got rid of my TRS-80 Model 3. I've never had a virus. All it takes is common sense and a good antigen.  SignatureProstate Cancer Survivor (so far), not a doctor PSA 16 10/17/2000 @ 46 Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c RRP 12/15/2000 PSA .1 .1 .1 .3 .4 .8 EBRT 05-07/2002 @ 47 PSA .3 .2 .2 .2 .3 Erection 05/12/2003 @ 48 HTbegins 07/21/2003 @ 48 PSA .1 Lupron 7/03, 8/03, 12/03 > That would be YOURDoom, not MYDoom. > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Cheers......Heather > > -------------------------------------------------- |
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