Roger I was hit with that as well before I had the latest virus
def's but didn't get infected.  You must have opened the
attachment?

TrendMicro had THREE updates in 12 hours that day!  I updated
before I left for the day (2nd time that day), came back less
than 12hrs later and saw these bogus MS emails.  I could tell
they were a vir-us of some kind and went to update my AV
software and there was yet another update that then identified
them.  The wo-rm I got though was SWEN, not what you mentioned.
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_SWEN.A
-Clint

God Bless Us All
Clint Hamilton, Owner
http://OrpheusComputing.com )

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Hi all,

Unfortunately I got hit with a Worm, the latest pandemic was a
massive
attack yesterday (9/20/03)
with multiple email messages, all with attachments carrying a
Trojan
identified by Norton AV as

"W o r m . A u t o m a t . A H B"
(the name is deliberately spaced out)

If you get any "Official-looking" HTML or other emails
purportedly from
Microsoft, DO NOT OPEN or RUN THE ATTACHED FILE!!!
Examine the FULL HEADER and you will find the email did NOT
come from
any official website.  Microsoft does NOT sent out email of
this sort.

This latest attack received was very elaborate HTML and had
many
illegally-used
trademarks and copyrighted items to make it look legitimate.
It even had
the "Truste" link.

Unfortunately it got to me just before I updated my AV
database, so 1
minute later and I would have had it.

I managed to curtail it, but only after the barn door was open
and judging
from the bounced email I got (about 200 so far), the cyber
idiot got a
bunch of folks. My AV found and deleted 39 infected files and
my spyware
checkers found one that even the AV missed.
What a hassle!

If you got any infected message from you that sneaked by your
AV, I
apologize.  I guess no defense is foolproof.


Roger
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