I already have seen this one. It has attacked the stripers247.com name, and has been sending itself out using it. DOH! I think Jim's machine got infected. I got a bunch of crazy emails with all sorts of different attachments. Be careful, this one is severe....
Alert! W32.MyDoom.M@mm SEVERE
The W32.Mydoom.M@mm mass-mailing worm:
- Uses its own SMTP engine to send itself to all the email addresses that it finds from an infected system.
- The email has an attachment with a .bat, .cmd, .com, .exe, .pif, .scr, or .zip extension.
- The attachment name may contain a randomly selected domain, which was found on the sender's system.
For example, the attachment name could contain fakedomain.com if the address x@fakedomain.com was harvested.
- The From field of the email is spoofed.
- Downloads and executes a backdoor, which is detected as Backdoor.Zincite.A, on port 1034/tcp.
- Is packed by UPX.
For more technical details on W32.MyDoom.M@mm, please see the Symantec Security Response write-up.
All users of Norton AntiVirus™, Norton™ Personal Firewall, Norton Internet Security ™ or Norton SystemWorks™ who do not have up-to-date virus protection should immediately run LiveUpdate for protection from W32.Mydoom.M@mm.
There is also a removal tool on their website.....
Something's happening here at work. We've got something...doesn't really surprise me though...loads of junk that gets downloaded from the girls here that have no idea the havoc they can cause.
I've had to tell my IT person and the rest of the crew (during the training I gave on Outlook) that they need to close their preview panes! That opens the e-mail and can allow an e-mail virus to propigate. I suggest, if anyone is using Outlook or Outlook Express (which isn't as secure as Outlook) - close your preview panes in your inbox, deleted items and sent folder at the very least!
Rule of thumb - if you don't know who it is, where it came from and there are spelling errors or other strange things about it...don't open it.
Ugh, I remember the "I Love You" Virus and the "Annakornakova" or however you spell that chick's name. Shut the software company I work for right down for 2 days each! Why? Because a chick opened them both! Sorry girls, I'm a woman, but it's amazing how many just don't have any sense...and there are guys out there like this too!
____________________ Get in, Sit down, Shut up and HANG ON!
Those chics shouldnt be downloading anything from the net, especially if its a networked computer. Hell, they shouldnt even be on the net while at work.
In the small office I run, none of that is allowed. And there is a "Rear Desk", where the chics can do internet searches, or business related stuff etc., but thats about it, and it is very limited time.
I remembah one time at one job a few years ago, I had to uninstall the friggin' browser on alot of machines cuz everyone was surfin tha net while on the clock.
Well, I'm thinkin' I shouldn't say anything, since that is where I am all day and I'm posting like my life depends on it in here.
Catch is, I don't download a bunch of Crapola onto this thing...I know better, however!!! - when I got on this thing, someone had already added HotBar to it and that is spyware - this is another place viruses are getting in.
____________________ Get in, Sit down, Shut up and HANG ON!
