I haven't seen anything come thru the list, probably there have been a few hits on the server but not much nasty stuff gets through to the list. The nasty ones that are getting around this week look like a modified "Melissa" or one of the nastier type called W32.Badtrans.B@mm that will capture your keystrokes (including passwords.) The Melissa type copies a file from your hard drive and adds a script. It's a bit clumsy and easy to pick, always look at the properties of an attachment before you open it and if it has two periods in the file name eg mydatto.doc.scr don't open it but kill the email and notify who sent it to you that they have a virus (nicely of course).
The problem with most of these virus's is that you don't always know you've got it on your pc, so keep your condoms up to date and we'll be all OK. "W32.Badtrans.B@mm is a MAPI worm that emails itself out using different file names. It also creates the file \Windows\System\Kdll.dll. It uses functions from this file to log keystrokes." If you are interested you can get full details here: http:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ml regards Terry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of 1600 BoY Sent: Friday, 30 November 2001 1:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: virus warnign again hey list, i think theres a virus going around and it could have ben spread thru ozdat maybe. its nothing major i opened it myself to see how bad it was and did jack didley, virus protector picked it up straight away but the email is subject is just RE: its got 2 attachments. one a .txt file and one a sreen saver file. but yeh just letting u know it sends itself around etc. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
