Got two of them... no harm done on DOS. No harm done in Win either... mine was supposed to be .WAV file but when I tried to play this thing: "not a valid recording". So nothing happened.
I sent the guy I got it from a warning and he cleaned his computer, the virus was in Outlook, and no harm was detected after the cleaning. Bastiaan On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 07:46:06 -0500 (EST), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> I don't think this virus does anything in DOS. So you're safe, and so am I. > Even if you run Windows, but don't run IE or OE, > you're still unaffected. >> I received >> two messages containing what appeared likely to be the New Improved Badtrans, >> which I saw as base64 code and declined to decode. > Mine claimed to be an mp3 file. I decoded it, > played it through xmms, and it was just static. > That's what clued me in that it was likely not > really an mp3. (on the 26th, I still hadn't heard > about the new BadTrans) >> So when I reply to tell them they have a virus, I edit out this leading >> underscore. > And they're ever so grateful, aren't they... :-/ > More on this worm-virus at > http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/badtrs_b.shtml > - Steve -- Arachne V1.61, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
