RE: serious network down...readme.eml??

[Zangara, Jim]

Title: Message

we are getting it as well.  we already blocked the readme.exe that comes with it - in our cases it is trying to launch a windows media player.  update your file filter to block *.eml and *.nws per antigen.  They re working on a more comprehensive fix.

 

Have not seen the problems you reported with it though - it only appears to launch the media player - share your c drive and propagate here.

 

 

Jim Zangara, MCSE+I
Special Projects Engineer
Premiere Radio Networks
A Division of Clear Channel Communications
15260 Ventura Blvd Suite 500
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
Direct: (818) 461-8620
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-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Manolakos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 9:21 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: serious network down...readme.eml??

My network is slammed with some uknown virus of some sort.....Both my NT 4.0 servers running MS-Exchange 6.5 have about 2300 alien files which were deleted....a "readme.eml" is being executed by all users somehow automtically and its infecting all my NT domain.   I can not Ctrl+Alt+Delete to log into any of the servers.....the display shows "initialization of the dynamic link library C:\WINNT\system32\USER32.dll failed. The process is terminating abnormally"  OKaying this results in no effects....all servers have this displayed onscreen.  For the ones that have admin already logged in, Services (control panel, settings) can not be accessed!  "access to the specified device, path, or file is denied"....it seems this virus has locked onto this element.  PDC is running Exchange (I know, never put'em together...but we're still cleaning up after previous SysAdmins here), and this has gone bezerk as well, with the same message onscreen.  Norton/Symantec doesn't recognize "readme.eml"....who out there can shine a flashlite in this dark mess?  thanks in advance.

Terry 

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