Recently, there have been reports of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] worm virus spreading quickly across email networks. Typical of worms, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] worm propagates itself by sending a mass email with an infected attachment to email addresses found in an infected computer's files (e.g., address books, text files, etc.).
Infected attachments may come in the form of the following files: .zip or .pif. The .zip file contains a password-protected .exe file with the 5-digit password mentioned in the email. In addition, the email that is sent out by the worm will contain a forged email address in the "From:" field of the email header beginning with one of the following: management@, administration@, staff@, noreply@, or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Therefore, email users may receive an infected message and it may appear to have come from a familiar domain, when in fact, it came from a totally different source. (Note: The forging of the email header may also result in users receiving "Failure Delivery" messages for messages they never sent out. If you receive such a message, we encourage you to just delete it.) In addition, the body of the message will contain a message indicating that your account has been disabled, warn you about attacks on your e-mail account, inform you that a large amount of viruses have been detected coming from your email account, or that complaints about spam from your email account have been reported. It will also state that more information is available when you open the attached file. Please do not download or open the attached file. For more information on this particular worm, you may visit: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/pf/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Abv message rcvd from yahoo in response to a forwarded virus infected mail.. joe ===== http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################