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(Message started by: Svenn on Feb 18^th, 2005, 10:22am)

Title: WARNING
Post by Svenn on Feb 18^th, 2005, 10:22am

Virus Advisory

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What is it?
W32/Mydoom.bb@MM is a Medium Risk mass-mailing worm that carries the dangerous BackDoor-CEB.f Trojan, which tries to disable regular anti-virus updating and also help a remote user hijack an infected machine. The worm spreads using stolen email addresses harvested from the victim PC and search engine queries. Watch out for messages pretending to be fake bounces from Postmaster or Mail Administrator.

Note: To fortify your anti-virus defense against threats like W32/Mydoom.bb@MM that need Internet access to spread, we recommend installing McAfee Personal Firewall Plus.

What should I look for?

FROM: Spoofed.

SUBJECT: Examples: delivery failed, Message could not be Delivered, Mail System Error - Returned Mail

BODY: Example: We have received reports that your account was used to send a large amount of junk email messages during the week.

ATTACHMENT: Examples: README, INSTRUCTION, TRANSCRIPT TEXT.ZIP

How do I know if I've been infected?

When run, the worm installs itself as JAVA.EXE in the Windows directory: C:\WINDOWS\JAVA.EXE

How do I find out more?

View details about W32/Mydoom.bb@MM here.

Current Threat

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W32/Mydoom.bb@MM
Medium Risk
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Title: Re: WARNING
Post by guesst on Feb 18^th, 2005, 10:23am

Thanks Bro!

Title: Re: WARNING
Post by sandie99 on Feb 18^th, 2005, 10:41am

Thanks for the warning! :)

Title: Re: WARNING
Post by john_d on Feb 18^th, 2005, 10:42am

thanks Svenn :)

Title: Re: WARNING
Post by clarence on Feb 18^th, 2005, 10:45am

Y'all need to get a Mac.

Casey

Title: Re: WARNING
Post by hilbily on Feb 18^th, 2005, 11:24am

on 02/18/05 at 10:45:30, clarence wrote:

Y'all need to get a Mac.

Casey

Amen, Bro!

Title: Re: WARNING
Post by Mastifflvr28 on Feb 18^th, 2005, 11:50pm

Thanks Svenn,
Was wondering why I had 80 bounced emails in my inbox, lol.
Mast

Title: Re: WARNING
Post by Svenn on Feb 19^th, 2005, 2:20am

on 02/18/05 at 10:45:30, clarence wrote:

Y'all need to get a Mac.

Casey

Mac ? what in hell is that ? ;;D ;;D ;;D ;;D

Svenn

Title: Re: WARNING
Post by Opus on Feb 19^th, 2005, 11:35am

I'm all set, these things still won't run in wine.

Opus/Paul [smiley=smokin.gif]

Title: Re: WARNING
Post by Alien Space Babe on Feb 19^th, 2005, 3:39pm

Thanks for keeping us updated svenn.... http://dktan.free.fr/GIF/Smiley/1044043564.png

Lizzie