Digital BW, The Print

Martin, if the message includes something like this:


>  > Hi! How are you?
>
>>  I send you this file in order to have your advice
>
>>  See you later. Thanks



  . . . it is probably the Sircam worm instead of Code Red. Can copy 
and send files it finds on your computer. Just having it bare your 
soul to the world for you is bad enough, I'm not sure if it may do 
further damage. Not to be confused with Code Red which apparently can 
erase hard drives.

Bob




>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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