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| 227240 | 2004-04-05 00:48:00 | New worm out there: www.trendmicro.com The sender's name was pue codswallop, dropped it onto floppy and had Housecall take a look at it, and of course it is uncleanable. Yes has been deleted. Les 3 |
leshibbard (873) | ||
| 227241 | 2004-04-05 03:12:00 | Your URL came up saying there was no matching virus in that database. The Sober worm variants have been doing the rounds for a while now.... Take a look here: Symantecs Security Response (securityresponse.symantec.com) Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 227242 | 2004-04-05 11:30:00 | Hi. I just had that the past 2 days. Checked my emails Sunday nite - Norton (with virus defs 1week old) scanned emails as they came in - but nothing appeared in inbox. Thne, all of a sudden - norton was scanning outgoing messages. I checked outbox - nothing... hmm, chcked sent items - nothing new. So i disconected - and errors came up - can't be sent. But the thing that got me was tht they were to all sorts of places - microsot, telecom, my local pc store, friends, Idg! all sorts. I done a virus scan while offline - cam up error - must update defs - so i connect bak up - starts sending emails agian - and i didn't want these unkown messgaes to go out to ppl. So i dcon, install a firewall (trial zonealarm!) connect to net - piks it up straight away - got remval tool - alls good. So it was a cunning thing - no trace of it coming in - and has own SMPT so sends emails it self. It was getting the addys by searching email address on my pc (in all sorts of files) But alls good now - and i'm thinking of keeping zonealarm! |
fergie (424) | ||
| 227243 | 2004-04-06 00:44:00 | > So it was a cunning thing - no trace of it coming in - and has own SMPT so sends emails it self. Now that is scary, I didn't know they could do that. :O I have my firewall to obtain permission before allowing any emails to be sent out so it should stop any of that nonsense even if a worm had its own SMTP. It is still good to be aware of these things though. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 227244 | 2004-04-06 02:05:00 | I don't believe there was no trace of it coming in if it was just one of the normal viruses with an attachment. Do you know what the virus was, would be interested to know. Unless you have an older browser or have not updated windows then you would need to open the attachment to activate the virus. It is not unusual for a virus to send with its own SMTP, most send out email that way and have done so for years. |
Jim B (153) | ||
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