[ADMIN] Sorry to Bother You With Another Virus...

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OK, Windows folks, especially those of you using IE and

Outlook... this is important.

 

PLEASE go over and read this article about the SirCam virus at

About.Com's Antivirus site BEFORE you have a problem. I have been

notified by another list owner that she has gotten over 1000

messages from infected individuals and frankly I don't want to go

through that, do you?

 

http://antivirus.about.com/library/weekly/aa071801a.htm

 

This is an even sneakier version of the progressively more

insidious worms that infiltrate your system through opening an

email attachment. The trick here is to steal a file name (with

its contents) from the infected person's " My Documents " file and

mail it to all the unwitting recipients with the virus attached,

with a .PIF, .EXE or .COM extention. Unfortunately these do not

always " show " , and the text of the file makes it look as if the

sender is asking for advice about the attached document or

picture (this is one example of the body of the post):

 

> Hi! How are you?

>

> I send you this file in order to have your advice

>

> See you later! Thanks

 

 

DON'T OPEN ATTACHMENTS, EVEN IF THEY SEEM TO BE COMING FROM YOUR

MOTHER OR YOUR BEST FRIEND.

 

This worm has the even nastier payload of being impossible to

remove without the proper registry fix; if you try to manually

remove it without the fix, none of your .EXE files will be able

to open afterwards (in other words, all the programs in your

computer will be dead in the water).

 

So don't delay, check out the website and the fixes, and be very

wary of any attachments; these things come through so fast you

can't even trust your virus software to catch them on scanning

all the time, so better safe than sorry.

 

Here is the McAfee page on SirCam:

http://vil.nai.com/vil/virusSummary.asp?virus_k=99141

 

and the F-Secure description:

http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/sircam.shtml

 

As you were, Listservites...

Caroline

 

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