Re: *** ADMIN: VIRUS ALERT!

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

I also am on NAV ... are we here because PC Magazine (May 9, 2000) says 
Norton is the best anti-virus, or some other coincidence?

>  From:    pmassiello@os-solutions.com (Pete Massiello)
>  
>  David,
>  
>      Can you tell us what email it came in with.  

david@midrange.com writes:

>   OPNQRYF - duplicate field name error
> The actual virus was "WScript.KakWorm"

Thanks - my e-mail does not give actual time of arrival until I actually open 
it, so I deleted several of these without trying to read them.  Fortunately I 
am about 250 e-mails behind in reading my e-mail box & I have been processing 
them by topic, with some topics given higher priority than others.

> From: b.boyer@worldnet.att.net (Barry Boyer)
>  
>  Just got my copy of midrange digest #382 and Norton flagged it as having a
>  virus.  It said the virus was the WScript.KakWorm.  It could not clean the
>  file.
>  
>  Just thought everyone would like a head's up.
>  
>  Barry L. Boyer

Pete continued

>  I thought we didn't allow attachments.

Whether attachments are allowed or not, they do in fact come occasionally in 
midrange_lists, and many come with HTML in the actual e-mail.  If you have M$ 
outlook or outlook express, you need to make sure you have the security patch 
... without it, outlook can open attachments before your anti-virus 
protection has had a chance to check them out.

>      Thanks for the help
>  
>          Pete

>  From:    dschnee@barsaconsulting.com (Dave Schnee)
>  
>  I received an item  from MIDRANGE-L entitled:
>  
>   OPNQRYF - duplicate field name error
>  Dated:   Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:13:28 -0700
>  
>  with an HTML version attached.  My Norton NT antivirus checker  kicked it 
>  out as having a nasty in the HTML.  I removed it from Norton's 
"quarantine" 
>  and viewed it.  Norton may well be right - it has a *LOT of script stuff 
in 
>  it after the (usual) repeat of the plain text and it looks specific for 
>  Microsoft/Intel-based systems.
>  
>  Careful - if you open it in an E-mail client that automatically uses the 
>  HTML version of the file you may get *HURT.
>  
>  Dave.

There's a version of the Love Triangle Virus family in which an infected 
person's e-mail will send out an infection based on the title of some e-mail 
that you recently had which was legitimate, so we can no longer identify all 
viruses using some code phrase, although the vast majority do use code 
phrases in the subject.
  
>  David Gibbs wrote:
>  
>  > Folks:
>  >
>  > A message infected with virus was sent to the mailing list and was
>  > redistributed ... PLEASE take a moment to scan your system for
>  > viruses to make sure you are not currently infected.
>  >
>  > I have installed protections to prevent future contamination by this
>  > particular virus, but cannot guard against them all.
>  >
>  > If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me privately.
>  >
>  > david
>  > midrange-l owner / operator / cleanup crew

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor
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