1. Re: VIRUS ALERT!
> Mike Swayze sent me a pretty bad Virus about two hours ago.
> He is aware of the problem and trying to clean it now.
>
> Lucky for me I had the latest McAfee update and a pretty descent firewall.
> Although, this only helped me in that I didnt send it to any of you.
>
> My machine was wrecked without haveing executed or veiwing the virus.
>
> the Virus arived with the name 2songs.mpg.pif
> As far as I know, the Virus will arrive with either .pif or .scr on the end
> it will create two executable file KERN32.EXE and INETD.EXE
> win.ini will have RUN C:\Windows\INETD.EXE and KERN32.EXE
> which is a .svr "Server" will attempt to access the Internet and upload
> information. It will also rename all of your inbox items to your
> sent items name and will generate alot of outgoing viruses to everyone
> in your inbox "recieved from" and Contact list.
>
> This is a cleaver virus and should not be taken lightly.
>
> Euman
Yeah, my dad got that one, not a nice one :(
Just to clarify, it can't infect you without you opening the
attachment, if you rename an exe to .pif or .scr it will still run.
Thomas Parslow (PatRat) ICQ #:26359483
Rat Software
http://www.rat-software.com/
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