Virus anyone?

Fabritzo

I'm assuming this is a virus, I scanned it with avg but nothing it got nothing, then zone alarm suggested I shouldn't open it, just be aware


Is there a virus alert forum?

Edit...I updated avg, then it recognised it.

Hydromonkey

Linkage
Got 3 of them today myself

flogen

yup, got two of them today, one as a zip and one as a doc file, but only one of them had any text with the attatchment..

anyway, was going to open them (cos i was in college) but i decided not to cos Im nice like that.

thats the first e-mail virus Ive gotten, actually, well, that I noticed, yay me... not really, I think Its because I posted my e-mail addy in the bands section etc, and straight afterwards I had the mails.

Bí Ullaimh

Flogen

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by Fabritzo
Is there a virus alert forum?

if there isnt it would be a good idea

lodgepole

I've been getting about 2 or 3 a day for the last few days. It's getting really ****ing annoying.

Villain

Virus news normally is reported in the Security form:http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?forumid=24

Fabritzo

Thanx irish1, apparently it's a pretty hard hitting virus then. I'm sure tech suppost people will be overjoyed.

Villain

Originally posted by Fabritzo
Thanx irish1, apparently it's a pretty hard hitting virus then. I'm sure tech suppost people will be overjoyed.

Yep I'm wokring night shifts as a computer tech and we got the word last night about 11pm, luckily we managed to curtail it.

I posted this thread last night it has some info on the worm:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=137592

Ryaner

the server virus scanner in my work picked it up before it got into my email. Lucky I'm guessing. It somehow managed to email itself to my address my reading the address from my system. It was sent to an address that has NEVER been given out to anyone before.

herbie747

I got 7 of those today into various accounts. They get detected each time, but it's quite annoying. Anyone know where they are coming from?

flogen

Anyone know where they are coming from?

yeah, but Im not telling.... *giggle*

Flogen

User45701

Its probley one of those 1`s that send 2 1 person and then auto sends to 5 more then auto sends to 5 more ect.

what i dont understand is why people send viris to other people.

Mabe if some guy raped your wife/doughter and there was no evidence to convict him , then yes for the rest of your life keep sending him viris after viris to try to make his life missirble.

But why send a viris to someone who did nothing wrong?
I just dont understand it?

Could it be possible that some people get some weird sexual plesure from sending viris to other people?

Ryaner

it's extremely annoying in work. Some web script or something is grabbing the email addresses. Thing that bothers me was I only had boards, jes-computers and google open at the time along with my email program

Bard

Originally posted by User45701

Mabe if some guy raped your wife/doughter and there was no evidence to convict him , then yes for the rest of your life keep sending him viris after viris to try to make his life missirble.

Oh yeah, sure. A computer virus. THATS the way to go.

Or alternatively, you could rip his lungs out and beat him to death with them.

Could it be possible that some people get some weird sexual plesure from sending viris to other people?

I seriously doubt that.

User45701

Yes i am asleap. I should have used a less extreme situtation.

Say you are some kid in school who has no friends and people treat you like crap and give you a hard time (both physical and mental bullying) . Then yes it would be ok to viris them

But to simply send a viris for no reason or because you dont like the way someone looks or they stole your "bird" is just crap. Or someone won a arguement online and u viris them - NOT a good enough excuse

I personley believe that NO situtation can justify the use of a viris.
Its just some situtations are more justified than others.

Ste-

Afaik they're made by people who want to show off to others and highlight flaws in an operating system (mainly windows.)

Or quite simply to extract info from people for selfish gain.

woosaysdan

there is another one going around aswell it says something about a patch for microsoft use immediatly(sp?!?) watch out for it

Cabaal

I've noticed at work today there's a increase in customers getting infected with the blaster virus.
The amount of unpatched WinXP machines still in the wild is crazy

:dunno:

PPC

as shown here



Blaster seems to be making a come back big time.

Mercury_Tilt

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PcP

I patched up for Blaster last year when it first came out and never had any probs but got hit with it for the first time last Sunday. I checked to see if there's a new strain but couldn't find anything. No idea how I got it with the patch installed for months..
Norton recognised it and said it had removed it but I still had shutdown probs until I ran a separate removal tool. Odd.

Doctor J

I use Mimesweeper on our Lotus Notes server. Just have .exe .pif and .scr blocked all the time. I keep .zip blocking on standby. our anti-virus let it through, even though it was last updated a few days ago.

Couple that with poledit restricting the programs the folks here can run and you're pretty safe.

Villain

Originally posted by Mercury_Tilt
AVG picked up 3 spybot thingies this morning. I also have some thing win system32? called taskmngr.exe

Thats the MyDoom worm, http://www.norman.com/public/MyDoomFix.com should fix that for ya, make sure you reboot after running the fix.

LegacyUser

Most of these virii are written by the anti-virus companies 'Black-ops' teams, just to keep the hype goin and get people to spend money on anti-virus software

Lump

Got three since yesterday, caught them all, One in a document.zip, one in data.pif and one in another zip file. AVG did the job, I update it daily.


John

woosaysdan

Originally posted by bananayoghurt
Most of these virii are written by the anti-virus companies 'Black-ops' teams, just to keep the hype goin and get people to spend money on anti-virus software

ba$tards

Lump

I think that's a load of ****....


John

Raphael

Thanks a million Fabritzo, i didnt really pay much attention to your post, but then my dad got an email with that exact text in it, i recognized it and told him it was a virus

If it wasnt for you our pc could be fcuke up baaaaaaaaaad

Thanks again!

Raph

Pepe LeFrits

15 so far today

LegacyUser

Originally posted by Lump
I think that's a load of ****....


John

nope tis true, thats why you you always hear about anti-virus software companies hiring x-virii writers, not so they can shed light on new virii but to create them !!

Sleipnir

Originally posted by bananayoghurt
Most of these virii are written by the anti-virus companies 'Black-ops' teams, just to keep the hype goin and get people to spend money on anti-virus software

yeah and president Kennedy was shot by space-aliens intent on impregnating his wife.

vibe666

Originally posted by Kananga
yeah and president Kennedy was shot by space-aliens intent on impregnating his wife.

it wouldn't be the first time big business has been responsible for something like that. even governments do it from time to time to convince people they need what is being sold to them.


anyway, here's the deal.

the virus gets sent randomly to x amount of people. it's new so nobody even notices it. it gets onto their pc's and picks names from their address books and emails itself to all their friends/collegues. meanwhile on the pc's it's on it opens some backdoors into your pc which can be used by malicious hacker types to get into your pc and put other worse stuff on it to do pretty much anything they want.

it also copies itself into your kazaa shared directory and names itself to look like popular kazaa downloads so it can spread that way too.

in the mean time it's doing this to every pc it gets onto and because it's been specifically written to stay off of the email systems of big corporations like microsoft and symantec setc. (along with universities and schools) it remains undetected until it has spread all around the world on hundreds of thousands of pc's.

from an admin point of view it's not really a big deal, we just keep our antivirus software updated and make sure all the ports the virus tries to open on individual machines are all closed up tight on our servers, that way nobody can get in to do any more damage. all we end up with is lots of crap email bouncing around for a while. no big deal.

as for home users, make sure you gett rid of it with that removal tool before the beginning of feb or it will start using your pc to launch attacks at SCO a company who makes (and thinks they own) linux. obviously they pissed someone off and now they're paying for it!

Raphael

Originally posted by bananayoghurt
nope tis true, thats why you you always hear about anti-virus software companies hiring x-virii writers, not so they can shed light on new virii but to create them !!

Bananayoghurt, you are a twonk, but a highly amusing and harmless one

Keep up the amusing ideas, there good for a laugh, but i warn you, people may not take you seriously in future

Ryaner

What are the odds on SCO having written this? Seriously they are using this as big publicity scam and blaming the whole thing on the Linux guys so it kinda figures