Listees, SORRY for the bandwidth Of concern today is the Bubbleboy virus. It is an email virus with active content and no attachment. I you receive the email and read the message you are infected. The virus then can replicate itself to everyone on your personal address book. So the potential is there for a true epidemic. Hey we ought to have a virus named after us such as VanaBoy or WestyBoy or ?? and a little van would travel around your screen, stop and camp out with full pop top, drive very slow up the screen, and finally gush (blue) coolant and wipe your screen clean. Ah ah ah - I guess Virus inventors don't drive Vanagons! - Syncro Westy Boy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- But seriously more details on Bubbleboy and the fixes at : http://www.internetofficenews.com/ <http://www.internetofficenews.com/> New E-mail virus named after a ''Seinfeld'' episode - Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO -- A dangerous new type of e-mail virus emerged on Tuesday that is able to destroy information on computers even when users are careful not to fully open the messages. The virus, nicknamed "Bubbleboy" after an episode of the TV show "Seinfeld," <snip> http://www.mcafee.com/viruses/bubbleboy/ <http://www.mcafee.com/viruses/bubbleboy/> VBS/Bubbleboy is a NEW type of worm: Unlike previous worms transmitted through email, this new type of worm does not come as an executable attachment. Instead, VBS/Bubbleboy infects PCs as soon as the transmitting email message is opened. This is a VERY significant innovation! Virus researchers have long assured the public that it is not possible to contract a virus or worm merely by opening and reading an email message. This is no longer true, and VBS/Bubbleboy marks the beginning of a more dangerous computing environment. VBS/Bubbleboy is transmitted through an email message with the subject heading "Bubbleboy is back!" It will ONLY infect PCs running Windows 98 with Internet Explorer 5 and Outlook or Outlook Express. PCs using Outlook are infected upon opening the email message, while Outlook Express users may be infected by viewing the message with Outlook's "Preview Pane" feature! When the email is opened, the worm creates a file called UPDATE.HTA. The next time the PC is booted up, the worm sends itself embedded in an email to EVERY address in EVERY MS Outlook address book on the local system. It does this only once. <snip> Thanks, Joel B. Cort Xerox TSI Corporate Information Security 161 Chestnut Street Building 875 - 2A Rochester, NY 14604 * (716) 423-3851 * joel.cort@usa.xerox.com <***********************> |
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