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Virus Alert - E-mail account disabling warning
Symantec ^ | March 3, 2004 | Nick Danger

Posted on 03/03/2004 9:11:45 AM PST by Nick Danger

Nasty new virus this morning

Watch out for emails with any of the following subject lines:

E-mail account disabling warning. 
E-mail account security warning. 
Email account utilization warning. 
Important notify about your e-mail account. 
Notify about using the e-mail account. 
Notify about your e-mail account utilization. 
Warning about your e-mail account.

If the attachment is executed, it opens a back door on your machine and performs other nasty stuff.

This one was just discovered this morning.


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1 posted on 03/03/2004 9:11:46 AM PST by Nick Danger
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To: Nick Danger; SAMWolf
bump and ping
2 posted on 03/03/2004 9:12:53 AM PST by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: snippy_about_it
Thanks Nick and Snippy. Bump
3 posted on 03/03/2004 9:13:30 AM PST by SAMWolf (I'd love to help you out. Which way did you come in?)
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To: Nick Danger

You're saying the back of my computer will fall off if I open that attachment?  This I've got to see.



Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

4 posted on 03/03/2004 9:13:48 AM PST by End Times Sentinel (I'm going to warn my kids about the dangers of excessive drinking through example.)
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To: Nick Danger
Somebody has been working overtime writing all these viruses lately..
5 posted on 03/03/2004 9:15:36 AM PST by Rams82
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To: Nick Danger
Bumping!
6 posted on 03/03/2004 9:16:05 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Nick Danger
Does it have a name?
7 posted on 03/03/2004 9:16:45 AM PST by Snowy
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To: Nick Danger
Got a patch for it or will my regular virus scan stop it.

I got the message this morning and it looked legit enough that a dumb computer guy like me opened it. I've seen no effect yet. Got any advice?
8 posted on 03/03/2004 9:17:07 AM PST by military cop (military cop)
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To: military cop
Sometimes I wonder if a these are being tested by some nation's military. I won't name any names...

CHINA!!!
9 posted on 03/03/2004 9:18:42 AM PST by Rams82
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To: Nick Danger
The people at Earthlink must be on their toes or something… I haven’t received a single email with anything since the Melissa virus or whatever it was. Norton quarantined that one. Maybe just lucky though.
10 posted on 03/03/2004 9:20:21 AM PST by Who dat?
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To: Snowy
"Does it have a name?"

W32/Bagle.k@MM

11 posted on 03/03/2004 9:20:49 AM PST by Jaxter ("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
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To: Rams82
subtle.

very subtle.
12 posted on 03/03/2004 9:21:02 AM PST by military cop (military cop)
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To: Nick Danger
FreeMarket and Yahoo both got hit with it this morning.
13 posted on 03/03/2004 9:21:57 AM PST by Gabz (The tobacco industry doesn't pay cigarette taxes - smokers do!)
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To: Nick Danger
I Hate having my backdoor opened!

JUST DAMN!

14 posted on 03/03/2004 9:21:59 AM PST by nobody_knows (<a href="http://http://www.michaelmoore.com/" target="_blank">moral coward)
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To: Rams82
Somebody has been working overtime writing all these viruses lately..

Agreed. My Norton LiveUpdate has been working overtime this week downloading new virus definitions.

15 posted on 03/03/2004 9:22:21 AM PST by Born Conservative (Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.)
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To: Nick Danger
What is the name of the attachment?
16 posted on 03/03/2004 9:22:58 AM PST by Salo (You have the right to free speech - as long as you are not dumb enough to actually try it.)
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To: Nick Danger
Had a variant on Bagle H yesterday -- it was sent as a password protected zip file. Since the anti virus server couldn't open up the zip file it made it through.

Granted the end user had to put in the password supplied in the email's body, but I wouldn't put that past some people.
17 posted on 03/03/2004 9:24:52 AM PST by lelio
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To: military cop
"Got a patch for it or will my regular virus scan stop it."

Good question. I just tried to manually update my antivirus (didn't want to wait for the auto update) and I was told that my software was already up-to-date but to check back often. So I think (I hope) we will be protected.
18 posted on 03/03/2004 9:25:51 AM PST by octobersky
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To: Rams82
Somebody has been working overtime writing all these viruses lately

It's spammers, attempting to create zombie e-mail servers in order to evade spam filtering.

It is long past time for the Feds to nail a few of these slime under the computer-cracking laws, and for Congress to explicitly clarify that evasion of spam filtering is in and of itself a form of computer cracking.

19 posted on 03/03/2004 9:27:11 AM PST by steve-b
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To: Nick Danger
I primarily use yahoo and hotmail accounts, and this morning, I had a bunch of "odd" e-mail in my inbox and junk mail folder. The sender was "Mail delivery substation" and the subject line was "message undeliverable". It says there is an attachment and the size is 4kbs. I just delete them.

Has anyone else got these? I had nearly 20 of them, and I didn't send an e-mail yesterday, and certainly not a mass mail out.
20 posted on 03/03/2004 9:27:47 AM PST by freedomluvr1778
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