Virus Warning

GRAHAM2002

We have a new virus in London should be with you soon

It contains multiple viruses and picks various adresses from your book but sends them as if the entry in your address book has sent them.

comes as either a zip, re, just what I have seen.


So if you are not fully covered with definitions beware

vibe666

rofl.

why is london so special? i know ireland can be a bit backwards sometimes, but you do realise we're all connected to the same internet don't you?

and yep, we know all about it. mydoom/novarg. not a big deal apart from a traffic point of view. as usual the media have hyped it out of all proportion. so it's all over the place. any sysadmin who doesn't jump on it and update their AV definitions and block the ports it uses after what happened last year (twice) deserves all they get for being incompetent and shouldn't be in the job.

Capt'n Midnight

Actually there are a few viruses that spoof headers and one of them is also guessing addresses - by adding random names to the host name.

But all of the OLD viruses are out there too - they never go completely away. - Many viruses spread BEFORE there are patches for the AV software - slammer took about 10 minutes - so caution is still needed when getting strange emails. When someone sends you an unsolicited attachment with active content (game screensaver strange file type sound clip etc) treat it as a virus !

ronanp

Originally posted by vibe666
not a big deal apart from a traffic point of view

Thats kinda the biggest deal of all. Blocking the ports for the "backdoor" elements of the virus is all well and good, but most of the traffic it generates is going to be http traffic. Its already on MyDoom.B. Updating AV defs on mail servers etc.. is fine, depending on the environment you're in. I'd say colleges, especially those which rely on clients updating their own av defs, are going to feel this one. Also its going to spread through kazaa users too, not the sharpest bunch of tools in the box

Capt'n Midnight

Don't worry some white hat hacker will release a fix for it which will use up more bandwidth than the original one.

If you mean http: as in port 80 - well you can't really close off that ..

ronanp

Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight
Don't worry some white hat hacker will release a fix for it which will use up more bandwidth than the original one.

Lol, remember Nachi, the "good" virus? ;-)

OfflerCrocGod

Thank You London Man!!!!, all us backwater Irish people will take your advice to heart and batten down the hatches - no doubt we will be seeing this new 'Virus' (must look up that word in the dictionary) in Ireland within moths.

Thanks!!!! Kisses XXXX

Capt'n Midnight

Originally posted by GRAHAM2002
We have a new virus in London should be with you soon

Define "Soon"

Eg: I keep reminding people that the slammer virus took out 90% of the unpatched MSSQL servers connected to the internet in about 10 minutes.

GRAHAM2002

Its called w32.doom

Hope u get it you sarcatic pack of twats !!

By the way I am Irish too

Muppets

Capt'n Midnight

Actually the security forum is over there
===> http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=24

Have 100's of the beggers in the Postmaster box - using random names in the hope of getting further than other peoples address lists.


joe@
brian@
serg@
alex@
maria@
etc. etc.

MarkR

I think this is the virus.

Goodtimes will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will
scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will
recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream
goes melty. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, screw
up the tracking on your television and use subspace field harmonics to
scratch any CD's you try to play.

It will give your ex-boyfriend your new phone number. It will mix Kool-aid
into your fishtank. It will drink all your beer and leave its socks out on
the coffee table when there's company coming over. It will put a dead
kitten in the back pocket of your good suit pants and hide your car keys
when you are late for work.

Goodtimes will make you fall in love with a penguin. It will give you
nightmares about circus midgets. It will pour sugar in your gas tank and
shave off both your eyebrows while dating your current boyfriend behind
your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to your Visa card.

It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if she is dead, such
is the power of Goodtimes, it reaches out beyond the grave to sully those
things we hold most dear.

It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can't find it. It
will kick your dog. It will leave libidinous messages on your boss's voice
mail in your voice! It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and
terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.

Goodtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat
up. It will make a batch of Methamphetamine in your bathtub and then leave
bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase gradeschoolers with
your new snowblower.

Mark

zAbbo

Originally posted by GRAHAM2002
Its called w32.doom

Hope u get it you sarcatic pack of twats !!

By the way I am Irish too

Muppets

Dont be such a knob, we have systems admins in ireland too. Most admins were on the ball and had it all sorted

OfflerCrocGod

LOL:D calm down I was only messing with you, your reply was excelent:p.

Capt'n Midnight

> If you receive an email entitled "Badtimes," delete it immediately.
> Do not open it. Apparently this one is pretty nasty. It will
> not only erase everything on your hard drive, but it will also
> delete anything on disks within 20 feet of your computer. It demagnetizes
> the stripes on, ALL of your credit cards. It reprograms your ATM access
> code, screws up the tracking on your VCR and uses subspace field
> harmonics to scratch any CD's you attempt to play.
>
> It will program your phone auto dial to call only your
> mother-in-law's number. This virus will mix antifreeze into your
> fish tank. It will drink all your beer. (For Gods sake man are you
> listening?!?!) It will leave dirty socks on the coffee table when
> you are expecting company. It will replace your shampoo with Nair and
> your Nair with Rogaine, all the while dating your current boy/girlfriend
> behind your back and billing their hotel rendezvous to your Visa card.
>
> It will cause you to run with scissors and throw things in a way that is
> only fun until someone loses an eye.
>
> It will rewrite your backup files, changing all your active verbs
> to passive tense and incorporating undetectable misspellings
> which grossly change the interpretations of key sentences.
>
> If the "Badtimes" message is opened in a Windows 95/98
> environment, it will leave the toilet seat up and leave your hair dryer
> plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub. It will not only remove
> the forbidden tags from your mattresses and pillows, it will also refill
> your skim milk with whole milk.
>
> *WARN AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN.**
> And, if you don't send this to 5000 people in 20
> seconds, you'll fart so hard that your right leg will spasm, shoot straight out
> in front of you, sending sparks, that will ignite onto the person nearest you.
>
>
>
> Send send send send send.
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