Re: VIRUS ALERT!
- Posted by "Thomas Parslow (PatRat)" <patrat at rat-software.com> Apr 27, 2001
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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. > > 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/ Please leave quoted text in place when replying