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Re: [Digital BW] Virus, or Spam? - Cross posted

2001-08-02 by mwesley250@earthlink.net

Antonis,

I got the same message with bear_2002Calender attached. This is the 
anticipated Code Red worm-virus attack that was expected to occur on 
August 1st.

It infects Window NT and Windows 2000 Servers. Even if your machine 
is not being used as a server the server components may be installed 
allowing your computer to be infected. It is designed to clog up the 
internet by sending millions of bogus messages. It collects e-mail 
addresses from the infected server and then sends out the message you 
received, or a variation and attaches a random file from the infected 
computer to the e-mail message to make the e-mail as large as 
possible and take up as much band width as it can.

Anyone running Windows NT or Windows 2000 should have the latest 
version of their anti-virus software up and running. Probably do a 
complete system scan also.

For additional information see www.microsoft.com

Do not report the virus as it is well known at this point and the 
additional reports add to its goal of loading down the system.

Since the attachments sound photographic in nature one of the servers 
at one of the site we all have sent an e-mail to at some time is 
infected.

See they are winning and have us sending extra e-mails too!

Martin


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., antonisphoto@y... wrote:
> Where do you report and what's the reporting procedure,  please?
> 
> It's odd that it isn't so impersonal and generic but sounds like a 
subject related 
> to what we are doing. Bit creepy I'd say....
> 
> Antonis
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Johnny Deadman 
<john@p...> 
> wrote:
> > I got one of these too. It is a virus. Mine was titled 'copy neg -
 old
> > print'. Following the internet headers backwards, I traced it to a
> > subscriber of MNSI.NET. I've reported it.
> > -- 
> > John Brownlow
> > 
> > http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
> > 
> > ICQ: 109343205

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