Storm Worm Hits Computers Around the World
By Reuters
January 19, 2007
HELSINKI (Reuters)-Computer virus writers started to use raging European
storms on Friday to attack thousands of computers in an unusual
real-time assault, head of research at Finnish data security firm
F-Secure told
Yes, and it should be old news by now.
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2071
The end of the page lists the four executables to ban, if you don't
trust your antivirus software, i.e.
#Jan-18-2007 AC New fake news clips virus called Small.Dam by F-Secure
and W32/Downloader.AYDY by F-Prot
I was receiving copies of it yesterday (Thursday), but nothing today. All
messages contained a .exe attachment. Since I'm running AVAFTERJM, all the
messages were caught as spam. I did not receive any that were not caught as
spam.
Original Message
From: Heimir Eidskrem
And an alternative writeup from Symantec, with more details on the
results of an infection, and with executables nobody else has mentioned.
http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2007/01/troj
anpeacomm_building_a_peert.html
Andrew 8)
-Original Message-
From:
or the absolute easy way, and in my opinion the only, ban all exe files
attached in mail.
Have been doing this for several years now,
Benny
Colbeck, Andrew wrote:
Yes, and it should be old news by now.
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2071
The end of the page lists the four
New variations have arisen... No surprise there, either.
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2071
No word on new explicit filenames, yet.
Andrew 8)
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Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew
Sent: Friday, January 19,
