Re: VIRUS ALERT!
On 26 Apr 2001, at 21:44, Euman wrote:
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> Mike Swayze sent me a pretty bad Virus about two hours ago.
> He is aware of the problem and trying to clean it now.
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> 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.
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> My machine was wrecked without haveing executed or veiwing the virus.
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> 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.
Set your email reader to not exec *anything* it gets. And don't use OE.
> This is a cleaver virus and should not be taken lightly.
/me takes a cleaver to it and chops it into tiny pieces.
Kat
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