E-Mailer virus hits the USA hard - (changes home page)

[ConcernedCanuk]

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Over 10,000 computers have been "cured" and logged in the USA out of 14,000 world-wide.

that is only the ones RECORDED and cured

Estimates put infected computers around 500,000

for a free scan, go to http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

for more information, go to http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_MIMAIL.R

If in doubt, clik on the tabs for technical information and statistics at that last addy

Here's a screenshot I took at 4:07am this morning (Wednesday)



From the above addy:

"Description:

A new variant of the MIMAIL worm has been found in the wild. As of January 26, 2004 1:47 PM (US Pacific Time), TrendLabs has declared a yellow alert to control the spread of WORM_MIMAIL.R.

This mass-mailing worm selects from a list of email subjects, message bodies, and attachment file names for its email messages. It spoofs the sender name of its messages so that they appear to have been sent by different users instead of the actual users on infected machines.

It can also propagate through the Kazaa peer-to-peer file-sharing network.

It performs a denial of service (DoS) attack against the software business site www.sco.com. It attacks the site if the system date is February 1, 2004 or later. It ceases attacking the site and running most of its routines on February 12, 2004.

It runs a backdoor component, which it drops as the file SHIMGAPI.DLL. The backdoor component opens port 3127 to 3198 to allow remote users to access and manipulate infected systems. Note that it allows remote access even after February 12, 2004.

This worm runs on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, and XP. "

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Here is the best Virus killer on the market:

Format C:

Install Linux.

It is truly amazing how effective a strategy this is, against viruses of all kinds. ;-)

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. I don't open attachements, or even e-mail from unknown senders

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I don't use Outlook, just Hotmail and yahoo cuz they both scan, as well as my AVG 6.0 instaled and updated at least weekly

oh, and here's from a source

"By now most people are aware of this worm. But I thought it prudent to post this anyway. Please update anti-virus programs and don't open attachments unless you know the source and only after you scan with your update anti-virus program"