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Nasty Virus
Posted: 1/28/2004, 12:19 am
by Solidarity 9-6347
just warning you guys...i got this email from my roomate and my computer was being a turd and so i downloaded norton antivirus. it found both "taskmon" and "novarg" on my computer so watch out.
The "next big one" may have been released yesterday. It hit both corporations as well as home users hard yesterday and is still growing. The formal title is Mydoom, it is also known as Novarg and WORM_MIMAIL.R. This one is hard to pin down characteristics as it has a random Subject line generator as well as a random Body generator. It is an address stealing worm so the From address will be someone you know. If you are a KaZaa user, you are particularly susceptible to this attack.
Some of the Subject lines that have been seen:
"Error
Status
Server Report
Mail Transaction Failed
Mail Delivery System
hello
hi"
Some of the Body text that has been observed:
"The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has been sent as a binary attachment.
The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment.
Mail transaction failed. Partial message is available."
It delivers its payload as an attachment which also has a variety of names. You should delete the email immediately and not open the attachment. We have updated the JNL systems, but you should ensure you have the latest anti-virus protection on your home computers. If you think there is a chance that you were hit by this worm, look for the file "taskmon.exe" on your PC; if you have this file, you should unplug from the web and clean your PC. Note that you may not have noticed the impact of the worm yet, but if it is resident on your PC, a secondary payload will activate on Feb 1 and start a Denial of Attack Service. As always, use good sense when opening emails from the web.
Posted: 1/28/2004, 12:26 am
by Johnny
I've gotten about 10 of those emails. People these days. sheesh!
Posted: 1/28/2004, 8:35 am
by nelison
Ya I probably get about 10 of them per day in my email... Mind you I also get almost 200 junkmail per day so a 1 in 20 ratio isn't bad I guess considering people are saying that this virus is currently in 1 out of every 9 emails sent worldwide.
Posted: 1/28/2004, 11:32 am
by Random Name
I don't touch my junk mail with a ten foot pole.
Posted: 1/28/2004, 1:40 pm
by Henrietta
Does anyone know how I can send it to someone?
Posted: 1/28/2004, 3:12 pm
by nikki4982
Uhh... you're kidding right?
Posted: 1/28/2004, 3:21 pm
by Axtech
Posted: 1/28/2004, 3:30 pm
by Henrietta
No. Absolutely not. I really want to send it to someone.
Posted: 1/28/2004, 3:32 pm
by xoNoDoubt69
Do you want to send it to Wal-Mart?
Posted: 1/28/2004, 3:32 pm
by nikki4982
Don't. Just. Don't.
Not only is that horrible regardless of what the person did, but it'll only make the virus spread to more people who haven't done anything wrong.
Posted: 1/28/2004, 3:35 pm
by Henrietta
That's the only thing that would hold me back, more people getting it. But yeah, some people do deserve. Sorry.
No...not Wal Mart.
Posted: 1/28/2004, 3:37 pm
by Axtech
Jared?
Posted: 1/28/2004, 3:41 pm
by Henrietta
You geussed it!
*pats on back*
Posted: 1/28/2004, 8:34 pm
by Johnny
Why do you hate Jared? All he ever did was eat at subway and make silly commercials!
Posted: 1/28/2004, 8:36 pm
by nelison
Isn't it illegal to spread a virus knowingly to someone? It must be.
Posted: 1/28/2004, 8:51 pm
by Henrietta
What, now the cm is taking Jared's side!?
*dies*
Posted: 1/29/2004, 12:31 am
by nikki4982
Absent Minded Guitarist wrote:Why do you hate Jared? All he ever did was eat at subway and make silly commercials!
What's scary is I was gonna say the exact same thing earlier today, but didn't... for some reason.
Posted: 1/29/2004, 1:46 pm
by Bandalero
Cass wrote:What, now the cm is taking Jared's side!?
*dies*
not me cass, i liked the fact that you called him bad names and words.
