McAfee sent a second series of DATs out tonight, 4160.  I had a "tmp.exe"
file on one PC that 4159 found but could not delete but when I updated to
the 4160 DAT it did delete the file.

Jeffrey Kessler  MCSE  MCP+I
Technology Coordinator
Newport (NH) School District 
603-863-2414 ext 1116
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lars Norman S�ndergaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 12:48 AM
> To: NT 2000 Discussions
> Subject: RE: New Virus - NIMBA
> 
> 
> Anyone managed to download Trends' pattern 941 for Mail Scan 
> / Exchange. My
> MailScan seems to think pattern 939 is the latest.
> 
> Lars
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 19. september 2001 00:15
> To: NT 2000 Discussions
> Subject: RE: New Virus - NIMBA
> 
> 
> 
> Some users access external mail servers such as private ISP's 
> using other
> email clients.   Our users are senior consultants, lawyers 
> etc so it's hard
> to control them.   We have the company email protected but 
> they do things
> that we would prevent if we could.    So far I've been seeing the
> readme.exe, desktop.exe, readme.eml, desktop.eml, and I have 
> a ton of eml
> files on my servers that are either completely the virus or infected
> existing files - dont know yet.     Might have to do a mass restore
> whenever we can protect against this.
> 
> 
>  
> 
>                     Wes Owen
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>                     .swynk.com                     Subject:   
>   RE: New
> Virus - NIMBA                
>  
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>  
> 
>                     09/18/2001 02:57 PM
> 
>                     Please respond to "NT
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>                     2000 Discussions"
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>  
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> So did you have some users actually got the readme.exe file?  
> We have not
> seen a single one of these hit our scanners yet.
> 
> BTW, we run Mailsweeper and even though we do not block all 
> executables we
> were able to quickly block readme.exe.  Even though Sophos 
> had an update
> out
> about 10 minutes after we got that done.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 4:35 PM
> To: NT 2000 Discussions
> Subject: RE: New Virus - NIMBA
> 
> 
> 
> I use Opera and this morning an infected web site offerred me 
> a download.
> If
> I had accepted the download I would have been a casualty in 
> this war. IE
> users can get infected automatically and because all of our 
> workstations
> have it, we had some get infected before we could notify 
> everyone.     We
> think some users got infected from Outlook too.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>                     "Szlucha, Chris"
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>                     09/18/2001 02:18 PM
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Incorrect!  If your users visit an infected website, they can get it
> directly because it's embedded in the HTML.  They can also 
> get it through
> Hotmail and any other web-based email system.
> 
> 
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From:           Ryan Malayter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent:           Tuesday, September 18, 2001 5:11 PM
> To:        NT 2000 Discussions
> Subject:        RE: New Virus - NIMBA
> 
> If you were blocking all executable attachments, you wouldn't 
> have to wait
> for your antivirus vendor...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony L. Sollars [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 4:09 PM
> To: NT 2000 Discussions
> Subject: RE: New Virus - NIMBA
> 
> 
> SYMANTEC...MOVE IT MOVE IT
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Callahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 2:04 PM
> To: NT 2000 Discussions
> Subject: Re: New Virus - NIMBA
> 
> 
> c'mon Symantec!
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chinnery Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "NT 2000 Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 4:03 PM
> Subject: RE: New Virus - NIMBA
> 
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> > Trend has just within the last few minutes released it's update.  I
> > can't get it yet, though, probably because of site traffic.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeffrey Witt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 5:05 PM
> > To: NT 2000 Discussions
> > Subject: RE: New Virus - NIMBA
> >
> >
> > It already hit us trying to download the detection and fix file now
> > from McAfee its going real slow. Think they are busy?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Szlucha, Chris
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 3:56 PM
> > To: NT 2000 Discussions
> > Subject: New Virus - NIMBA
> >
> >
> > Just an FYI, folks.  There is a new virus spreading rapidly!!!  SARC
> > and others are still researching it, but McAfee seems to have a DAT
> > file that will at least recognize it.
> >
> > Seems to be a bit nasty in it's propagation.  Check out the web site
> > for more details.
> >
> > http://vil.nai.com/vil/virusSummary.asp?virus_k=99209
> > <http://vil.nai.com/vil/virusSummary.asp?virus_k=99209>
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> > -Chris Sz
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