We got hit on Tuesday at about noon. 1 user opened the attachment and it got sent out with the corporate address book. Nasty, Nasty. We just got back on to outside E-mail this morning.
FYI, there is a security patch for MS office and/or Outlook 98 and 2000, that blocks ALL EXECUTABLE attachments, send or receive. By block I mean you CANNOT get to the attachment at all. The only thing to do is have the party resend the attachment by changing the extension to .txt or something that is not recognized as executable by the OS (i.e. .bat, .cmd, .exe, .com, .vbs, there is a long list of file extensions in the help file in Outlook), then inform the recipient to save the file to their hard drive, run a virus scan on it, and then rename it to the proper extension. You can also change the period (.) before the extension to an underscore (_) BEFORE you attach the file to the message. Your System Admin can also block the attachments at the Exchange server, so if you need to send someone a blocked attachment, check with your admin. There was a virus out last week that ran some VB code just by opening the e-mail. So, the rule stands more important than ever, IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHO SENT IT, OR IF YOU DO, WHY THEY SENT IT, DON'T OPEN IT, delete it and clean out your deleted items folder. Sincerely, Chuck Glawe Courtesy Corporation Mold & Tool Div. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.courtesycorp.com -----Original Message----- From: Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 11:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [mfg-smartcam] VIRUS ALERT We got hit with that one this morning, fotunately got the warning moments before the email. We have been hit 3 times in 3 days! Yesterday I clicked on a "post" on the list and a window appeared on the screen, something loaded and Outlook tried to run.... (the post was blank, by the way). Fortunately I have all traces of Outlook & Outlook Express deleted from my PC. Don't open ANY .scr attachments!!!!! This stuff is out of control! At 07:50 AM 12/5/01 -0600, you wrote: Hey guys, not sure if you heard about this one, but it is an incredibly bad virus. The virus is attached to an e-mail message (in subject it says "hi") and the file is called GONE.SCR. Because it is a screensaver, it typically will not be caught by your mainframe's virus detector. DO NOT open this file. It will immediately attack you e-mail address book and start sending messages (20 to each person). Eventually, it will start to attack your executable files. ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================
