[grrltalk] RE: [techtalk] heads-up: M$ (e-mail) virus makingrounds.

[Kathryn A. Rauss]

this seems to be hitting everyone...

i just got a message from my university computer center (University of
Connecticut) telling the entire university population that the School of
Business server has been affected and is down until further notice...but not
before the worm managed to send itself to about a thousand student and
faculty email addresses on that server...since there is a great deal of
interdepartmental email, not to mention student email, they are extremely
concerned that it will hit the school of engineering server or the college
of liberal arts and sciences, or maybe even the University's main server
(which would be VERY bad, indeed).

of course, they are just telling everyone (assuming as they do that MS is
what the entire campus uses, with the exception of those engineering geeks
who have a Unix lab!) to delete all "suspicious" attatchments and upgrade
their virus protection (the university has a license for Norton, plus free
updates)...i upgraded both of my antivirus programs so that I know Windows
is protected, but I feel great knowing that I don't have to worry about
Linux.

it'll be interesting to see how much further this one spreads....


katie

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-----Original Message-----
From: techtalk-admin at linuxchix.org
[mailto:techtalk-admin at linuxchix.org]On Behalf Of Stephanie Alarcon
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 5:01 PM
To: techtalk
Subject: Re: [grrltalk] RE: [techtalk] heads-up: M$ (e-mail) virus
makingrounds.


This is possibly a stupid question, but
http://www.drsolomons.com/home/vbslove.htm talks about this:

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This worm also has another trick up it's sleeve in that it tries to
download
and install an executable file called
WIN-BUGSFIX.EXE from the Internet. This exe file is a password stealing
program
that will email any cached passwords
to the mail address MAILME at SUPER.NET.PH
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Is that "win- bugfix" thing as new as the virus or has it been around for
a while?
Did a couple searches and came up empty-handed.




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