Of course it is a "problem" but I closed IE before it could dl the file.
I did let konquerer download the file, figured since it was linux it would be
pretty much immune to it.. how ever the Java must be the culprit, allowing it
to write to any writeable shares and aross open network connections(SAMBA for
instance).
I, cleaned before using LookOut so as to not infect the users on my address
book.. This worm seems to ahve been well planned in that it propigates
itself in almost every way imagineable..
On Thursday 20 September 2001 18:44, you wrote:
> I went to one of those sites with netscape. I downloaded one file (readme).
> Once, I got a TESTING message on my browser. Nothing else.
> Don't you think that using IE was the problem?
> Joel
>
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 06:15:48PM -0500, Bill Day wrote:
> > Its not your fault, Im nosy 8) I did let it dl the .eml file but as to
> > how I got all those and such was wierd.. They even migrated to samba
> > shares(and winboxes) somehow. I visited one page (206.230.156.209) with
> > I.E. and closed all open window imdeiately then trie dwith konquerer
> > figured Id be safe.
> >
> > however i found (400 not 4000) on my linuxbox and exactly 198 on each
> > winbox that was up at the time. both had infected load.exe in
> > windows/system/ and then a *.eml in every folder on the box...
> >
> > truly wierd..
>
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