yeah, who is going to release a virus that only propogates one way now??? This is the start of some really nasty virus's we will start seeing now... The writers know that alot of people have protection now, and that means they need to reach as many people as possible before the virus companies release the pattern updates... So using miltiple methods of propagation speeds things up no end... A sad day for software in general and Microsnot software in particular. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Leone Sent: Friday, 21 September 2001 10:35 AM To: Newbie Mailing List Subject: Re: [newbie] Nimda virus From: David E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >The closing sentence of a San Francisco Chronicle writeup on the virus > said that server users should contact Microsoft for patches :). > >It's yet another instance of the Outlook Virus Transmission software. Not quite. Nimda can and does propogate via Outlook attachments, and embedded HTML; However it *also* propogates as Javascript on infected web pages, which has no dependency on Outlook (altho does depend on MS's IIS web server to house it's infection). Also, it can spread across MS network shares, again with no dependence on Outlook. Nimda is REALLY thorough in exploiting many ways to propogate. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: <http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg> Taking a mental stroll through the psychic park of pleasure.
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