RE: New Virus

[Gary Jorgenson]

Hi Folks,   Our virus definition files have been updated so all CMDG messages and AANAC messages should now be protected.  I'm happy to say we caught this and took action an hour and a half  before the story broke on Reuters.  Hopefully none of you got hit by this virus.   Thanks, Gary   New Worm Spreading Rapidly Across Internet -Experts Mon January 26, 2004 07:05 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Security experts warned on Monday about a new virus outbreak that was spreading quickly across the Internet. The new virus, dubbed MyDoom or Novarg, is a mass-mailing worm that arrives as an attachment with an .exe, .scr, .zip or .pif extension and can have a subject line of "test" or "status." It mails itself out to addresses in the victim's computer and is clogging mail servers and degrading network performance at companies, experts said. "Mailboxes at large corporations are infected and reporting multiple infections throughout their entire organizations," said David Perry, global education director at Trend Micro. The worm was discovered on Monday afternoon and spread so quickly that Trend Micro, Network Associates, Symantec and other anti-virus companies were rating it a "high" outbreak. Security experts said they were still analyzing the virus to discover what it does to the victim computers.       Gary Jorgenson, RN President - Robin Technologies, Inc. 52 Westerville Square, Suite 159 Westerville, OH 43081 Phone: 614.895.2020 | Fax: 614.899.1580 | Cell: 614.657.8080 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.robintek.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Gary Jorgenson Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 5:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: New Virus I'm seeing scattered reports of a new fast spreading virus.  It may be nothing and I may be over-reacting but just in case, I just setup a rule to ban all zip file attachments until our virus scanner definitions are updated. Everyone, please be careful if you receive email with a zip attachment from any source.  Also MAKE SURE YOUR VIRUS DEFINITIONS ARE UP TO DATE!!!!  Thanks! Gary   "Symantec has updated in the last hour or so as well - [EMAIL PROTECTED] seems to be the name for it, but not much other info on it so far"   Gary Jorgenson, RN President - Robin Technologies, Inc. 52 Westerville Square, Suite 159 Westerville, OH 43081 Phone: 614.895.2020 | Fax: 614.899.1580 | Cell: 614.657.8080 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.robintek.com