Just damn.
If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
Posted on 08/09/2004 12:47:48 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe
My company has just been hit by a new virus, so bad that we had to shut down our email servers.
It comes with a SUBJ: Price
The BODY:
new price
Attachment: newprice.zip
Symantec has put an automatic message in their Support Line warning that they are receiving an unusually high number of calls.
Just got this one a few minutes ago.
Didn't open it, just deleted it.
Norton didn't say anything, so I'm guessing all's well.
Just damn.
If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
All it takes is one dumbass in a company to open the zip file, and everyone gets plagued by emails with the virus for days.
The virus typically has the following format:
FROM: spoofed [forged] email address
Subject Line is blank
Attachment name is variable but contains price in format , e.g. [wildcard] price [wildcard].zip
It's a BEAGLE variant
Same day Windows XP 2 was to be released.
Hmmmm....
I got two of them today. The attachment is price_new.zip
We have a few idiots firing this one up. Mostly eBay players.
WAKE UP, PEOPLE!!!
It hit our biz a couple of hours ago. An announcement came over the intercom to not open any zip files received through e-mail, so I immediately sent out an e-mail to co-workers titled "U B Zipped" with an attachment called "zippyzip.zip".
I had the same thing. But I just deleted it. I never open attachments. Not even from family. If they can't fit the message into the body of the email, I delete it!
I got the 'new price' virus about one hour ago. Recognized it as garbage and dumped it. Wonder if there's a commonality to FR ?
I havn't seen it yet.
I got two of them this morning. Deleted.
My personal anti-virus program (updated daily) detected it but by the time it was deleted it seemed to already be tying up my cpu. I never opened the attachment.
It seemed to survive one restore op, but was cleared up when I restored from an earlier date.
I've gotten a few of these emails today.....it's spreading fast.
Anyone who opens this thing and infects an entire company needs a good old-fashioned, Brooklyn-style pistolwhipping.
THANKS MUCH FOR THE HEADS UP.
NO new Norton update seems available on LIVE UPDATE. Just tried.
Yup.
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