another one, since this is my first year with a net connection at home i am surprised at the amount of virus' being sent at this time of year, it's this kind of people that don't care about our glorious purpose of saving the world from the heat of a thousand raging hellfire's, caused of course by fossil fuel damage.
sweetuni wrote: > Beware Of Happy New Year Virus > < http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20001229S0006 > <http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20001229S0006> > > (12/29/00, 3:18 p.m. ET) By Barbara Darrow, TechWeb News > A new e-mail virus is on the loose, according to Computer Associates > International. > > The "Tqll-A" worm is typically found in electronic messages bearing a > Happy > New Year greeting in the subject field, said Ian Hameroff, business > manager > for antivirus solutions for Computer Associates (CA). > > The latest threat, which CA detected at its global research centers, > conveys > itself via Microsoft Outlook. When people open the > "happynewyear.txt.vbs" > attachment, the virus then installs itself on the user's hard drive. > > Windows drops the second extension so the attachment appears to be a > harmless .txt file. Even many non-techie PC users will not open .vbs > attachments because they have been used to propagate viruses. > > Should a user open the attachment, the worm installs a Trojan , > executing as > "3k.exe," which then attempts to download another file, "Teen.exe," > from > several websites, Hameroff said. > > CA, Islandia, NY, characterized this as a low- to mid-level threat. > "We > haven' t had any incidents reported to us but received a sample > through our > normal research," he said. > > Whoever wrote the virus program is betting that a seemingly innocuous > e-mail > greeting in the subject line will persuade users to open the e-mail. > > The Trojan then uses Outlook's address book to send itself out to more > > people. > > > > > > To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
