Be aware of a virus going around

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Hi all, My wife told me of a nasty little bug going rampant right now. Its an e-mail worm and its replicating like wildfire. The Hight School that my wife teaches at has been hit a few thousand times. Luckily its an attachment type and as long as you do not open the attachment you should be ok.

The subject line will read: Hi or Hello

Please update your virus programs guys, this one is real new!

I got four in a row this morning, I guess when it gets nasty outside the morons stay inside and write that crap!:grumpy:
 
Thanks Dwayne!
We had great fun with that stuff at work this week! Even though people had been asked to delete all mails starting with "Hi!", they didn't and we had around fifty PC's that needed scanning and repair!
:mad:
 
Same thing at the school! You would think that TEACHERS would heed a warning eh?? NOPE! First thing those doofuses do is open the attachment and then go whining to the technology super. And these people are teaching out future!!!:eek: :confused:
 
Yeah, but it's safe to assume that even people who should know better just don't!
A couple of our most persistant whiners who never misses an opportunity to tell how incompetent we are(!), had to admit they jumped into this with both feet even though they had been warned!
Not, that was quite entertaining! I imagine it'll be a while before we hear from them again!:D :D :D
 
Try a little over 110,000 infected emails successfully scrubbed covering four of my largest clients since 1/26. Quite easy to defend against. The emails themselves are 100% harmless, you can open/close them all day long without anything happening. As with most worms, it's payload resides in the attachment of types .exe, .bat, .pif, .scr. Almost no one has any business opening attachments of those types with the exception of .exe. Standard operating procedures for most large corporations and government agencies already forbid all of those attachments, taking the risk down to almost zero for front door penetration.

The real challenge and test is an infosec officer's commitment to a three tier defense. Many of the webmail services were caught offguard leaving webmail users defenseless for almost twelve hours after the world-wide alerts. If clientside defenses were ready before hand with intelligent identification there really wasn't a threat.

Unfortunately once you step down into small businesses and local goverments these are missing...hence the latest outbreak from hell.
 
I got a couple of emails that said "Delivery failure" and "Undeliverable". They looked like emails you would get back if you sent something to a bad email address. The thing is I hadn't sent any emails from that address for quite some time. I just deleted them. They certainly weren't delivery failure notices.
 
Hi,:D
I’ve had about six of those little buggers, Norton has been putting them into quarantine, but hasn’t fixed them. I haven’t opened any as I wont unless I know the sender.
I Rang my service provider and was told to delete them completely out of my system. That I have done, there were two .exe files in amongst them, and as was said they all start with Hi.
Ian.
 
I got a couple of emails that said "Delivery failure" and "Undeliverable".
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Yeah I get those once in awhile. Yahoo does let you know where it originated. Usually some porn site.




sunnee
 
Originally posted by Paradiggum
I got a couple of emails that said "Delivery failure" and "Undeliverable". They looked like emails you would get back if you sent something to a bad email address. The thing is I hadn't sent any emails from that address for quite some time. I just deleted them. They certainly weren't delivery failure notices.
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This thing hijacks your email address! Thats how it is replicating so fast, I've gotten several of those failures. The schools are getting each others addresses hijacked and sent back and fourth. I got one that said that a certain mail server had caught and quarantined a virus that "I" had sent!!!:eek: And I am clean!:confused: This has to be one of the worst little bugs in a while....:grumpy:
 
My virus software has been catching 2-5 of these buggers a day. Hopefully it keeps catching them

:D:D
 
I just had a company email me and ask what the attachment in my email to them contained. They said they didn't want to open it without knowing what it was.

I have never emailed this company, and explained that to them.

But, on the reply they sent me, I could see the time and date my supposed email was sent, along with "my" email address.

I had no idea what was going on until I read this thread. ;)

Coincidentally, the subject of the email was "hello." :eek:


Jennifer
 
In addition to using anti-virus software (I highly recommend Norton AntiVirus, but there are other good ones) and keeping the virus signature files updated frequently (like every week), I also strongly recommend using a software package like Norton Personal Firewall (NPF). Anytime you are connected to the internet, your computer is subject to being attacked and having harmful programs installed, and this is what firewall protection prevents from occurring. NPF lets you know if your computer is being attacked and prevents it, and it also lets you know if a program on your computer is attempting to send info on the internet and gives you the opportunity to stop it. In other words, viruses usually come from e-mail attachments, but it is not the only method of attack. Please see the following for more info:
Norton software
By the way, I have no personal interest in Symantec Corp., so I do not work there or own any of their stock; they have been around for a long time and their software is consistently highly rated.

Gene
 
Scary part of this one is that it could be "from" someone you know because of the hijacking being done. I got one last night addressed from a well known knifemaker!:eek: Not Busse, but very well known. THe wife is getting stuff from other teachers and schools.

First clue is the attachment, and the size of the file has been 30 something K
 
Norton SUCKS.

I had Norton on my system, computer was laggin, and some web pages were giving me grief but I though nothing of it, I have Norton Running, what could be wrong? -The answer everything.

I saw this tread and purchased a new anti-virus MCAFEE. MCAFEE found 101 infected files, and 15 adware programs. My computer had more trojans then a whore house trash can. It cleaned 100 of them and locked-up the one that would not clean or delete. MCAFEE Rocks! Leatherman Rocks! Norton Sucks, and if I ever have the luck of meeting a Kid who writes a computer virus......:grumpy:
 
Originally posted by Fan of Steel
Norton SUCKS.

I had Norton on my system, computer was laggin, and some web pages were giving me grief but I though nothing of it, I have Norton Running, what could be wrong? -The answer everything.

I saw this tread and purchased a new anti-virus MCAFEE. MCAFEE found 101 infected files, and 15 adware programs. My computer had more trojans then a whore house trash can. It cleaned 100 of them and locked-up the one that would not clean or delete. MCAFEE Rocks! Leatherman Rocks! Norton Sucks, and if I ever have the luck of meeting a Kid who writes a computer virus......:grumpy:
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With complete respect for your opinion I have to disagree. Over the years I've implemented probably over 100 enterprise class infosec architecture solutions. During this process I've had the pleasure of beta-deploying the finest products from all three of the leading and standard defining companies(NAI, CAI, & Symantec. NAI(McAfee)does have some very fine products, but client side defense packages are not among them. On the other hand their appliance based solutions are some of the best available.

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With all of the above in mind I suppose any choice will perform just fine for home use on personal workstations.
 
Fan of Steel,

I'm sorry to hear about your PC problems. There is no anti-virus software, including McAfee and Norton, that will catch all viruses 100% of the time, even if a person is faithful in keeping the virus definitions updated, because new viruses are continuously being developed. Also, you might have been hit thru the "backdoor" - almost every day my Norton Personal Firewall catches intrusion attempts by either the Netbus or SubSeven trojans. Some of the viruses/trojans/worms attempt to disable products like Norton, McAfee and others. Whether at home or at work, I recommend:
- using good anti-virus software
- updating your anti-virus software virus definitions weekly
- firewall protection
- beware of e-mails with attachments from unknown senders, and do not open the attachment if you have any doubt at all
- be careful about using programs from others
- do not store sensitive personal info on your PC, especially credit card numbers and your social security #.
Good luck!

Gene
 
Yeah virus protection can be a hassle at times. Just use what works for you. Norton works for me and I have never had a problem before on any of my computers.

My brother uses Norton for its features but doesn't like it becauses in slows his computer.

My neighbor likes McAfee until he got raped from some back door trojans. He couldn't clean his system and had to reinstall. Now he's a Norton fan.

What ever works.




sunnee
 
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