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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Xeen on 19 September 2003, 21:30

Title: Beware: New virus/worm attack has begun!
Post by: Xeen on 19 September 2003, 21:30
The news warned of an imminent worm attack and they were right. I just recieved 6 emails all at once - 3 spams and 3 viruses. They all claim to be from Microsoft, offering the latest "patches". But it's easy to tell theyre fakes and Norton did a good job detecting it (not like I was gonna open the attachments anyway). They all look like this:

(http://ecsyle.com/microsuck/content/mswormmail.jpg)]http://ecsyle.com/microsuck/content/mswormmail.jpg[/IMG]

They were all infected with the worm Worm.Automat.AHB (not sure what it does)

The file names are: INSTALL115.exe, install.exe, and Q752167.exe

BEWARE WHEN READING YOUR EMAIL!!!! I have no clue how these fuckers got my email address.

[ September 19, 2003: Message edited by: xeen ]

Title: Beware: New virus/worm attack has begun!
Post by: Refalm on 19 September 2003, 21:13
I had that e-mail too and I opened it... it didn't work... KDE said that there wasn't any program binded to *.exe...
Title: Beware: New virus/worm attack has begun!
Post by: Fett101 on 19 September 2003, 21:27
Anyone who opens attachments from someone they don't know(MS included), deserves what they get.
Title: Beware: New virus/worm attack has begun!
Post by: Refalm on 19 September 2003, 23:04
quote:
Fett101: Anyone who opens attachments from someone they don't know(MS included), deserves what they get.


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[ September 19, 2003: Message edited by: Refalm ]

Title: Beware: New virus/worm attack has begun!
Post by: mobrien_12 on 20 September 2003, 00:05
MS doesn't ever ever email patches.  They will sometimes email a security advisory to their registered customers, but these legit emails will only point to the MS website where the patch can be downloaded.
Title: Beware: New virus/worm attack has begun!
Post by: LocNar on 21 September 2003, 05:24
I'm getting these #&@!! SWEN e-mails in my Yahoo! account at the rate of about 1 every 2 or 3 minutes. It gets the e-mail addresses from Kazaa, IRC, newsgroups, and address books from infected machines. Gotta love Microsuck!
Title: Beware: New virus/worm attack has begun!
Post by: jtpenrod on 22 September 2003, 11:25
quote:

 I'm getting these #&@!! SWEN e-mails in my Yahoo! account at the rate of about 1 every 2 or 3 minutes. It gets the e-mail addresses from Kazaa, IRC, newsgroups, and address books from infected machines. Gotta love Microsuck!


I use Yahoo for E-Mail and I never get these things sent to me. I feel so neglected.   (http://tongue.gif)  

Then, again, I've been using Linux since Nov., 2001, and I don't deal with stuff like Kazaa, or other sorts of Windows bugware either.
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