We almost got it too but were running Trend Micro antivirus and it detected
it and stopped it.. phewww! Thank God.
Good idea to set your Updater to DAILY..
thanks,
George Vieira
Network Administrator
Citadel Computer Systems P/L
http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Welykochy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, 20 June 2000 12:18 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SLUG] LIFE_STAGES virus hits AustraliaD
Our company was hit this morning with a new email worm
called Life Stages. It is a script-in-a-MIME attachment,
called LIFE_STAGES.TXT.SHS
>From Symantec:
"Execution of this attachement will open a text file in Notepad
displaying the male and female stages of life. While the user
is reading the text file the script is executing in the background.
This worm spreads itself using Outlook, ICQ, mIRC and PIRCH."
Unfortunately, the worm is difficult to remove, and causes a lot
of changes in the Windows registry, including moving REGEDIT.EXE
to the Recycle bin.
Once again, this is a Microsoft-culpable exploit, due entirely
to executable content being made available to naive users
through their Lookout programmes.
And the fix will probably be another 40 MB download ;^)
Needless to say, the worm spread like wildfire through our
WAN until the mail server was turned off. And of course, only
Windoze boxen were hurt by it.
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Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
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