Volgens welgemeende bronnen zal morgen (vrijdag) het Nimdavirus uitbreken. According to this, tomorrow at 2am(c.s.t) Nimda is scheduled to unleash on email tomorrow..
All be sure you are at IE5.01 SP2 or IE5.5 SP2 and make sure if using Outlook Express, is patched to not allow attachments to execute automatically. (I would recommend turning off option to mark messages read after (x) seconds. Researchers say Nimda set to propagate again By Deborah Radcliff, Computerworld online September 27, 2001 10:52 am PT RESEARCHERS HAVE DISCOVERED a third vector to the Nimda worm, which is set to propagate again through e-mail at 1 a.m. ET Friday. "We rechecked the code base to Nimda, and we found a code set that is supposed to respread Nimda through e-mail systems starting 10 days after machines were first infected," said Oliver Friedrichs, director of engineering at the Attack Registry and Intelligence Service. That service is sponsored by SecurityFocus, a business security firm in San Mateo, Calif. Ten days after first infecting machines, the worm will attempt to respread itself through readme.exe attachments, with the same payload as its original mail-based infection. The impact could be significant or minute, depending on how well the IT community has cleaned systems and patched Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Server) and Outlook programs. The 10-day vector will likely be less severe than Nimda was the first time because more systems have been patched against the vulnerabilities, Friedrichs said. But because Nimda has spread itself to so many places on computers, networked systems may not have been cleaned enough to prevent widespread mailings of the virus. Therefore, Friedrichs advised IT managers to do the following: -- Double-check their patches. -- Make sure their anti-virus software blocks Nimda. -- Block executables files at the e-mail gateway. -- Alert users not to preview or open any attachments that say readme.exe. ======================================================================= Helaas ontbrak ons de tijd om dit voor u te vertalen. _______________________________________________________ Alert Systems Project _______________________________________________________ Powered by Sambar Webmail - http://www.sambar.com) ============================================================ De Alert Nieuwsbrief is een uitgave van Alert Systems Project en wordt gratis verpreid onder de aangemelde leden. Aan de uitgave wordt de uiterste zorg besteed. Toch kan het voorkomen dat de informatie later bij U verschijnt. Vaak is de oorzaak dan dat over de gemelde informatie nog nadere info binnenkomt via onze bronnen die van belang zijn voor U. De uitgave is vrij van copyright en mag worden doorgegeven aan vrienden en/of bekenden. Wij verzoeken U wel bij doorgifte aan derden onze link http://www.n-i-herders.nl te vermelden. ============================================================ Wilt U de Nieuwsbrief NIET meer ontvangen: stuur een leeg bericht naar [EMAIL PROTECTED] met als onderwerp: UNSUBSCRIBE (meer niet) u wordt dan van de maillist verwijderd. Om U aan te melden hetzelfde als bovenstaand maar dan met onderwerp: SUBSCRIBE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For unsubscription of this list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with email data containing unsubscribe emailadd sambar
