Warning! Virus!

[rainbowgirl28]

The way to avoid viruses is to get a MAC!

Indeed

[wacky274]

definitely a mac person here!!

[rainbowgirl28]

There are a couple email worms going around... I got about 30 of these emails in the past couple hours, so I am sure some of you are getting them too. You can read more here http://securityresponse.symantec.com/

[rainbowgirl28]

And now I just got 11 in the past 10 minutes. I feel so popular

[bjvando]

these 'worms'. are they lots of e mails saying " message failure' or 'delivery system error' stuff like that?

i've received about 20 in the past 30 min...

[Bruce Caldwell]

ANd they try to access my address book. Mine are blocked it is the
W32.Novarg.A@mm

[rainbowgirl28]

these 'worms'. are they lots of e mails saying " message failure' or 'delivery system error' stuff like that?
i've received about 20 in the past 30 min...

Yeah.

Here are some recommendations from http://securityresponse.symantec.com/

Symantec Security Response encourages all users and administrators to adhere to the following basic security "best practices":


Turn off and remove unneeded services. By default, many operating systems install auxiliary services that are not critical, such as an FTP server, telnet, and a Web server. These services are avenues of attack. If they are removed, blended threats have less avenues of attack and you have fewer services to maintain through patch updates.


If a blended threat exploits one or more network services, disable, or block access to, those services until a patch is applied.


Always keep your patch levels up-to-date, especially on computers that host public services and are accessible through the firewall, such as HTTP, FTP, mail, and DNS services.


Enforce a password policy. Complex passwords make it difficult to crack password files on compromised computers. This helps to prevent or limit damage when a computer is compromised.


Configure your email server to block or remove email that contains file attachments that are commonly used to spread viruses, such as .vbs, .bat, .exe, .pif and .scr files.


Isolate infected computers quickly to prevent further compromising your organization. Perform a forensic analysis and restore the computers using trusted media.


Train employees not to open attachments unless they are expecting them. Also, do not execute software that is downloaded from the Internet unless it has been scanned for viruses. Simply visiting a compromised Web site can cause infection if certain browser vulnerabilities are not patched.

If you are running Windows, please check and see if you have the worm/virus/whatever. There are instructions for how to do this and how to remove it on http://securityresponse.symantec.com/

[Bruce Caldwell]

We got about 60 virus email files today most all of them were from people I knew would not send a virus. We traced captured IP addresses and 80% of them back to Sweden and Budapest Hungary:


Network id#: 11
Senior Network Engineer
Telia Network Services
123 86 Farsta
Sweden


Network id#: 12
Hungarian Telecom
R&D Directorate
Magyar Tudosok korutja 9.
Budapest
H-1117 Hungary

Network id#: 13
Rep. of Hungary, PMO, Coordination Office of GIS
Kossuth Lajos ter 4.
H-1055 Budapest

[Lord of the Poles]

Hey, yea, I've gotten atleast 20 of them in the past 2 days now...Lots of Viruses...damn...

[keelowman]

I just got the mydoom.A worm and my protection software wouldnt delete it, it would open up windows and tell me that I had it though. I had to delete every file and reg file one by one, what a pain in the a**.

[xtremevaulter]

I guess that I am not the only one who has gotten this email then...Aparently one of my friends opened it and now I can't seem to go a day with out getting a bunch of garbage in my email account. So it might affect you even if you don't open the attachment. being my case.