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359826	2005-05-30 12:55:00	I got one last week and rang Orcon. I was tempted to run the sucker at work, as none of the anti-virus scanners picked it up (Just because I could, I was in a weird mood). It was _obviously_ a virus (being a called "support.html .pif" kinda gives away cruel intentions). Instead, I took it home and tried to run it under WINE and Crossover Office, but I couldnt get it to go :(	Chilling_Silence (9)
359827	2005-05-30 13:42:00	I got one last week and rang Orcon. I was tempted to run the sucker at work, as none of the anti-virus scanners picked it up (Just because I could, I was in a weird mood). It was _obviously_ a virus (being a called "support.html .pif" kinda gives away cruel intentions). Instead, I took it home and tried to run it under WINE and Crossover Office, but I couldnt get it to go :( You're keen. :eek: Wait till you get one that corrupts your BIOS and try that. ;)	vapo (5203)
359828	2005-05-30 20:51:00	NOt long ago I got one along the lines of "Your domain is about to expire and you have to renew it yadda yadda yadda" I though bloody phishing spam again and immediatly deleted it without taking much notice as I had similar from ebay etc that were phishing attempts. About a month later my site went down, because my domain had expired :) Thank goodness my webhost fixed it in hours. But you just can't tell sometimes	netchicken (4843)
359829	2005-05-30 21:49:00	An alert this am from Trend: The following is a brief summary of what this worm is capable of doing: This memory-resident worm propagates by sending a copy of itself as an attachment to an email message, which it sends to target recipients using its own Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) engine. This email message has the following details: Subject: (any of the following) . {Random} . *DETECTED* Online User Violation . *IMPORTANT* Please Validate Your Email Account . *IMPORTANT* Your Account Has Been Locked . *WARNING* Your Email Account Will Be Closed . Account Alert . Email Account Suspension . Important Notification . Notice of account limitation . Notice: **Last Warning** . Notice:***Your email account will be suspended*** . Security measures . Your email account access is restricted . Your Email Account is Suspended For Security Reasons	Scouse (83)
359830	2005-05-30 22:22:00	What sort of AV are you guys using and do you have it set to scan your email. If yes to the latter, replace the former with a decent AV, if no, why not. If it can't scan email, yep, your learning, replace it with one that can. You never know, next time you could get a self activating one. Avast! is what I am using and it did not flag the email or attachment as a virus when it came in but it has picked up with a scan of my Eudora attachment folder so that's a relief. Sounds like another dirty worm with a backdoor payload according to Symantec (securityresponse.symantec.com) and I am picking that a lot of people are going to be stung with this one since it looks so genuine.	FoxyMX (5)
359831	2005-05-31 09:09:00	AVG hasnt ever picked up any email virus's that i know of, and it didnt this time.....??? apart from AVG what are other people using? beetle :dogeye:	beetle (243)
359832	2005-05-31 09:15:00	I think the free version of AVG will only detect an email virus if you tried to open the infected file. Don't think it performs "live" scanning of the email as it downloads. Someone will correct me if I remember this incorrectly. If you saved the attachment, and then manually scanned the file it should of detected the virus. apart from AVG what are other people using?None. ;)	Jen (38)
359833	2005-05-31 09:21:00	OK ill refrase that then, for those of us not using Linux, what anti virus, email scanner programs are you using currently???? :p beetle :thumbs:	beetle (243)
359834	2005-05-31 10:11:00	Norton	TonyF (246)
359835	2005-05-31 10:37:00	Avast on the XP (free version) Nothing on the Mac.	Sue (33)
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