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(Message started by: Lizzie2 on May 4^th, 2005, 9:30am)

Title: VIRUS WARNING
Post by Lizzie2 on May 4^th, 2005, 9:30am

From: Peter Fagans
Sent: Wed 5/4/2005 7:18 AM
To: Omni Fitness All
Subject: VIRUS WARNING!

All,

Please be aware that a nasty new Virus is spreading via email.

Unless you know the sender of the email DO NOT OPEN it.

The virus comes through in meassages with subjects like:

"Registration confirmation"

"Password Request"
etc.

and they will come from what appear to be reputable sources like yahoo or earthlink.

Remember "When in doubt through it out!"

Thanx

Peter Fagans
IT Manager

Title: Re: VIRUS WARNING
Post by nani on May 4^th, 2005, 9:40am

I learned of this virus yesterday and probably got 30 e-mails with those messages on them. Be careful, they look official.

Title: Re: VIRUS WARNING
Post by LeLimey on May 4^th, 2005, 9:42am

Thanks for the warning Lizzie!

Title: Re: VIRUS WARNING
Post by Lizzie2 on May 4^th, 2005, 10:01am

OT, but I just emailed Dave back (he sent the warning from work) and told him to tell his IT manager to learn how to spell the word THROW..not THROUGH. hehe ;)

Yeah, it looks legit to me.

Title: Re: VIRUS WARNING
Post by seasonalboomer on May 4^th, 2005, 10:19am

The advice is good whether in a period of high alert or ANYTIME. If you don't know who sent you something (especially w/attachments) then trash it.

If you want to see how scary it is out there in the wild west of the internet just check out the "Internet Storm Center"

http://isc.sans.org/

All the latest info on viruses and such

Title: Re: VIRUS WARNING
Post by ExplodingEyeBall on May 4^th, 2005, 10:55am

I'm not sure if this is what they were referring to but there is a new vairiant of the sober worm spreading quickly.

If you get a message you were not expecting and it has an attachement with a .zip extension, don't open it.

You can read about this worm here.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sober.o@mm.html

Pat

Title: Re: VIRUS WARNING
Post by mynm156 on May 4^th, 2005, 6:52pm

This is amazing. One of my email accounts has had this sent to it from about 20 different places. I havent opened it but it is obvious what it is.

Title: Re: VIRUS WARNING
Post by Renee on May 4^th, 2005, 7:20pm

Never trust something from a supposed IT Manager that sends this:

Quote:

"When in doubt through it out!"

doh!
IT managers would most likely know how to spell throw.

Title: Re: VIRUS WARNING
Post by Charlie on May 4^th, 2005, 8:05pm

One of the few things old Charlie learned when he got his puter is to double check an iffy email like so: I right click on PROPERTIES, click on DETAILS, MESSAGE SOURCE, and then expand the page. This lets you take a peak. You can see the story before opening the thing. I do it now and then.

Maybe everybody does this but maybe not.

Charlie

Title: Re: VIRUS WARNING
Post by Lizzie2 on May 4^th, 2005, 8:45pm

on 05/04/05 at 19:20:37, Renee wrote:

Never trust something from a supposed IT Manager that sends this:

doh!
IT managers would most likely know how to spell throw.

LOL see my post above. He definitely IS an IT manager at Omni Fitness, which is the company my boyfriend works for. I emailed Dave (as I said above) and told him that his IT manager needs to learn how to spell. I think that was an oversight!

Good warning, at any rate! :)

Lizzie :)

Title: Re: VIRUS WARNING
Post by Lizzie2 on May 5^th, 2005, 1:55am

Dave is here now, and earlier tonight he was just telling me about an example of this virus he got today.

As some of you may have read in one or two of his posts, he is looking for a job as a health/phys ed teacher. In his mail today, he got an email from service@pennsbury.k12.pa.us which is an actual school district and legit website/email, etc. However, they probably don't have an email with the name of "service" because it was a virus attachment.

At Penn State, I used to get those. They'd be masked from the IT department and come from psu.edu. I got a few viruses on my old computer from that!

The other issue was that maybe it was from techsupport@psu.edu and that could have been a legit email, but someone hacked into it and attached a virus to it.

One of my first emails from Jefferson came from one of the administrators of the nursing school...she had passed a virus along through her mailing list, and everyone in the entire college of health professions (we have a listserv for JCHP) wound up getting the virus because it was from someone who we got emails from all the time!

Can't be too careful sometimes!

Carrie :)