Bagle and other recent viruses (Was: warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users, possibly virus)

2004-03-04 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: Perhaps I'm only following this as its affecting us more, but I dont recall a time previously when I've had so many viruses hitting us and getting thro our scanners with nothing we can do about it. I dont recall seeing viruses with variants as

Re: Bagle and other recent viruses (Was: warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users, possibly virus)

2004-03-04 Thread william(at)elan.net
Also the followin is talking about same too: http://www.cmpnetasia.com/ViewArt.cfm?Artid=23047Catid=3subcat=50 Dueling Hackers Sparked Bagle, Netsky Worm Blitz Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News , 3-Mar-2004 Security analysts are asking themselves whether the wave of malicious worms that began

Re: Warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users (possibly virus)

2004-03-03 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: Erm is it me or are the writers of Bagle and Netsky determined to keep morphing their code to outwit the virus scanners.. is this a new trend in virus writing - beat the systems by evolving your code quicker than the security firms can

Re: Warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users (possibly virus)

2004-03-03 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
Erm is it me or are the writers of Bagle and Netsky determined to keep morphing their code to outwit the virus scanners.. is this a new trend in virus writing - beat the systems by evolving your code quicker than the security firms can release updates? Steve On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Larry

Re: Warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users (possibly virus)

2004-03-03 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
Erm is it me or are the writers of Bagle and Netsky determined to keep morphing their code to outwit the virus scanners.. is this a new trend in virus writing - beat the systems by evolving your code quicker than the security firms can release updates? new trend in that it started

Re: Warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users (possibly virus)

2004-03-03 Thread William Warren
it has gotten to the point for me that i am looking for a whitelisting option on my firewall/a-v gateway instead of a blacklisting one for attachments. Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: Erm is it me or are the writers of Bagle and Netsky determined to keep morphing their code to outwit the virus

Re: Warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users (possibly virus)

2004-03-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 16:15:39 + (GMT) From: Stephen J. Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Erm is it me or are the writers of Bagle and Netsky determined to keep morphing their code to outwit the virus scanners.. is this a new trend in virus writing - beat

Re: Warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users (possibly virus)

2004-03-03 Thread Gregh
- Original Message - From: william(at)elan.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 3:07 PM Subject: Warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users (possibly virus) I have just seen emails (several different kinds) pretending to be sent from

Re: Warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users (possibly virus)

2004-03-03 Thread Michael Painter
If it ain't one thing, it's... http://www.vnunet.com/News/1153081

Warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users (possibly virus)

2004-03-02 Thread william(at)elan.net
I have just seen emails (several different kinds) pretending to be sent from 3 of my isp domains to users of those domains warning users that their email account would be disabled and asking to open a .pif attachment. I know largest ISPs probably have expierenced this but I believe what I

Re: Warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users (possibly virus)

2004-03-02 Thread Larry Rosenman
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_101071.htm W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --On Tuesday, March 02, 2004 20:07:17 -0800 william(at)elan.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just seen emails (several different kinds) pretending to be sent from 3 of my isp domains to users of those domains warning