This virus has made the news.  Go to
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4673576.stm.
It is set to strike tomorrow by wiping out common files.  Better update
your virus protection if you have not already and backup your files if
you are not using a UNIX based OS.

Here is a list of the files it will wipe out:
DMP - Oracle files
DOC - Word document
MDB - Microsoft Access
MDE - Microsoft Access/Office
PDF - Adobe Acrobat
PPS - PowerPoint slideshow
PPT - PowerPoint
PSD - Photoshop
RAR - Compressed archive
XLS - Excel spreadsheet
ZIP - Compressed file

Good night and good luck!
Jean-Marc

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Lawrence Q. Pulaski
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 12:13 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: He's at it again!

It seems as though there is a concentrated effort of attacks going on. I
don't want to be an alarmist, but me and all my friends are under
attack. 
Not just this spam going to this group. We've all seen activity in our
apache logs in the last week of people looking for holes. Mostly PHP,
cgi, and XML. On our sendmail servers we are seeing requests for relay
from spammers. More than usual.

Just wanted to tell everybody to check your logs if you are running
apache and sendmail and tighten things up.

Told the wife I was going to fly over to Taiwan and kick the @ss of this
guy that got through on my server. Got into cgi and was trying to run a
ping script. All he accomplished was he filled up var and maxed my cpu
(it was a poorly written perl re-direct script.) *NOTE: she was able to
calm me down as I was on the phone with the airlines. "He's probably a
12 year old zit face with no friends, feel sorry for him."

If people have relay turned on in their sendmail, the spammers - "virus
weasles," could be going through their servers as people have been
trying to do in my case.

I still want to "visit Taiwan." I think that there might be a few less
black hats in the world.
Larry

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Foo Ji-Haw wrote:

> Jeff Griffiths wrote:
>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> The virus weasel, that is!  New user name is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> 
>>> Same subject line, same three image placeholders. Is there someone 
>>> at ActiveState we can scream to?
>> 
> Is there some kind of a JAVAqi terrorist seeking to destory the Perl 
> community? :) It cannot be from Microsoft since they have a stake in 
> ActiveState.
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