Not very intelligent.... 
Posted on 06/17/2004 7:00:09 AM PDT by MountainPatriot
SPARTANBURG, SC (Talon News) -- A threatening new e-mail virus debuted last Friday and is quickly circulating worldwide across the Internet, affecting computers of countless numbers of individuals, government officials, and media.
In a message entitled "{Spam?} {Virus?} {Spam?} Check this out kid!!!," the e-mail simply states, "Send me back bro, when you'll be done...(if you know what i mean...) See ya, ..."
Worse yet, the attachment to this e-mail, "jennifer the wild girl xxx07.jpg.pif," is a virus that has severely infected computers internationally.
The virus, known as Worm.Zafi.B, sends as many as 100 or more e-mail messages daily with the aforementioned message delivered from various e-mail addresses.
The recipient list in the e-mails received by Talon News indicates that the e-mail virus has been sent to members of the media, such as CNN, the Washington Post, Seattle-based KIRO radio, and Talon News, as well as elected officials like House Speaker Dennis Hastert and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, just to name a few.
In addition, the White House has received this e-mail virus along with governors and Congressman in every state.
The e-mail originates from a listserve entitled cis-announce or cis-outgoing. When someone receives this e-mail virus thinking it is spam and replies to everyone on the list about it, the virus spreads even further to the entire database of e-mail addresses found in the address book of the victim of the virus.
The Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation have already been notified of this virus and are currently conducting research on it.
Each time a person responds to the virus e-mail, the virus adds "{Spam?}" to the outgoing message.
The official name of this Hungarian virus is Worm.Zafi.B, also known as Erkez.b, and has been described in a statement by Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos Anti-virus (web site), as the most "widespread e-mail worm at the moment."
VirusList.com (web site) describes in detail the various forms of the Worm.Zafi.B e-mail virus that have shown up since it first began last week.
The worm was originally written in Hungarian and has been sent in many different languages, including English, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, and Russian.
This international e-mail virus infects a computer when the attachment is opened by looking for new e-mail addresses and sending a new message out to everyone in that person's address book.
Since the e-mail virus appears to come from someone familiar with the recipient, also known as "spoofing," the likelihood of the virus spreading is even greater.
To see if a computer has been infected by this e-mail virus, Symantec (web site) recommends that a complete scan be performed.
Although there may be an e-mail alert showing the virus originating from someone's e-mail address, that does not necessarily mean that person has the virus, because the virus "spoofs" the name of the sender at random among the e-mail addresses in its database.
As for disinfecting this virus, a special utility called F-Secure has been developed to eliminate the Zafi.B worm infection and can be downloaded at their web site.
Recipients of this e-mail virus are being asked to refrain from replying to this message in any form because it only sustains the life of the virus.
Copyright © 2004 Talon News -- All rights reserved.
The problem is your firewall gets POUNDED. Even though you don't have the virus, others who do have it will send you numerous emails. My company received 1000+ in 45 minutes,and my husband's company received over 100,000. This one is nasty and very time-consuming.
Worse yet, the attachment to this e-mail, "jennifer the wild girl xxx07.jpg.pif," is a virus that has severely infected computers internationally.
If you are dumb enough to open read or open an attachment to an email like this - you deserve to get a virus...
Worse yet, the attachment to this e-mail, "jennifer the wild girl xxx07.jpg.pif," is a virus that has severely infected computers internationally.
"All I wanted was to see Jennifer the wild girl and I got this nasty virus that ate my homework." Latest excuse why Johnny didn't have his womework done for class.
I've not received it. Just received the emails. My system is catching it before it comes. Just thought I'd pass this story, sorry to have offended.
No offense taken, it was a general statement to all those "countless numbers of individuals, government officials, and media..."
No kidding. Absolutely no one I know would send something like that to me and I simply do not open emails from people I have never heard of.
womework=homework
For now tho, I'm still struggling with whatever it is that hit microsoft, google, and yahoo the other day.
Evidently my computer doesn't know the attack is over, if it is.
What a childish statement. There many of elderly, children and novice computer users that, through no fault of their own, will get zapped by this virus. What you said is like saying that since you didn't bolt your car down to the ground it's your fault that someone stole it. Blame the innocent victim. Real intelligent.
It's more like a stranger asking you if they can borrow your car "just for a few minutes", saying OK, then being surprised when it gets totaled. This far into the Internet age, it's simply irresponsible not to know how to deal with unexpected email attachments.
True but I think his real intent was to say that a simple firewall, antivirus program and windows update will prevent you from almost EVER having a problem with this stuff. This is the equivalent of the leaving your car door open with the keys in the ignition and the engine running in a bad neighborhood.
Not very intelligent....
Worse yet, the attachment to this e-mail, "jennifer the wild girl xxx07.jpg.pif," is a virus that has severely infected computers internationally.
... the White House has received this e-mail virus ...
Thank goodness that Bubba isn't President - the news story today would've been the "mysterious crash of the White House server due to unknown causes ..."
Bums who make these things should be keelhauled.
Arrgh, aye aye captain! And may there be some blistering barnacles on the hull.
Yeah. What maridee said.
I'd be interested in knowing which of our esteemed politicians and media elite have opened it.
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