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Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 10:51 pm

There are too many people already infected, the virus is new and is causing real problems... Please, check if you have it to stop it as soon as posible.

Here is all you need to know:

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_101119.htm

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 11:16 pm

Another tool to check your computer:

http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 11:41 pm

Some more help here...

http://viruses.surferbeware.com/viruses-netsky-p.htm

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 5:26 am

"The worm exploits the Incorrect MIME Header Can Cause IE to Execute E-mail Attachment vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer (ver 5.01 or 5.5 without SP2), to automatically execute the virus on vulnerable systems."

Wow! Now there's a surprise...who would have thought that IE, of all browsers would be vulnerable?

To be honest, I cannot understand at all why anybody would use IE, Outlook or Outlook Express. There are plenty of superior, less vulnerable and free web, mail & news clients out there, and some excellent cheap ones.

Royston

Plato · Post by **Plato** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 5:40 am

Like what ?

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 6:15 am

Is that question for real? There's life outside of Microsoft, you know.

OK, for an email/newsgroup clients, TheBat! rocks, Eudora is very good and Thunderbird is worth a look too. Then there's Gravity, which for my £0 layout is the best newsgroup client ever.

Mozilla, Firefox, Opera and all good browsers and are much, much closer to W3C compliancy than IE will ever be - pop-up blocking as standard and tabbed browsing makes for a far better user experience than fighting off scores of unwanted windows.

With all of the above clients, you don't have the constant worry of auto-executing attachments, or hitting a website which will exploit some vulnerability in your browser.

Oh yes, Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird are all available in Mac OS-X flavours (and they're free, of course).

Edit: and for Linux too.

Royston

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siberiansun · Post by **siberiansun** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 6:34 am

thank you for this post Nestor!

the stinger detected and removed 8 worms..
highly recommended!!!!

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 1:56 pm

On 2004-03-26 06:34, siberiansun wrote:
thank you for this post Nestor!

the stinger detected and removed 8 worms..
highly recommended!!!!

I'm very happy you could do so... Now you should do a letter for ALL your friends and contacts, so they know they may have the virus... It sends itself...

Glado your system is ok.

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 2:11 pm

Next, visit http://www.grc.com to check and secure your machine. And get a decent anti-virus program, I use the freeware AVG6 from http://www.grisoft.com .

All to make sure it doesnt happen again

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 3:32 pm

Counterparts

I have been on Opera since 6beta.

7 was in many ways a step down for me. The speed realy dropped (maybe it just needs more resources, than this old crap PC has got). On the other hand it was nice getting a password manager...

I just tried FireFox now. I think I may get a bit from both worlds with that one. So far I am very satisfied.

ElectronicaDub · Post by **ElectronicaDub** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 4:29 pm

I got 6 of them over the last two days.
AVG Anti virus(a freebie) found them. Pesky little varmints.
Even if you don't use IE or Outlook, opening an attachment may cause any virus to spring free and go forth and multiply. If everyone used Eudora, virus writers would use security holes in Eudora. Microsoft products are most commonly used, hnce the writers make use of Microsoft's security holes.
Always keep your antivirus software up to date. And always have your firewall up so that if a virus tries to email out, the firewall will spring into action with alerts and sirens and flashing lights etc.

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Basic Pitch · Post by **Basic Pitch** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 10:28 pm

Hi all,

I have been using Opera since the early 5.x builds, I just installed firefox this eve and I gotta say I am making the switch, there are downloadable extensions that give you pretty much the same functionality as opera, but its free and uses far less screen realestate, thats a major bonus for me personally.

The only issue I have found so far, is that they are extremely vague on the encription and security measures with this browser, I still can not find if they are using 128bit or what not.

Over all a great looking and functional browser, smokes IE in terms of speed too

Thanks for the heads up on this browser, I didnt like mozilla since it was a spyware style semi bloated type browser, but this version is pretty nice

Cheers!

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 4:41 am

Basic Pitch wrote:

I have been using Opera since the early 5.x builds, I just installed firefox this eve and I gotta say I am making the switch, there are downloadable extensions that give you pretty much the same functionality as opera, but its free and uses far less screen realestate, thats a major bonus for me personally.

Oh, I didn't realise Opera was commercial.

The only issue I have found so far, is that they are extremely vague on the encription and security measures with this browser, I still can not find if they are using 128bit or what not.

That depends on the site you are wiewing, not the browser you're using - the site's authors decide what level of security they need/can afford & purchase that level of encryption from Verisign (or somesuch place).

Royston

virtualstudio · Post by **virtualstudio** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:27 am

I'm getting about 8 e-mail's a day from different unknown senders with some attachment stating "youre file or youre letter" I don't open them but delete them.
does this has something to do with that worm?
what can I do about it?

regards

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:57 am

Royston

Opera is free with the add banner. You pay a little cash to get rid of it.

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 1:29 pm

On 2004-03-30 09:27, virtualstudio wrote:
I'm getting about 8 e-mail's a day from different unknown senders with some attachment stating "youre file or youre letter" I don't open them but delete them.
does this has something to do with that worm?
what can I do about it?

regards

Yes, it has all to do with it... This is the way they are spreading the virus...

What to do?

That depends strictly on what you are using as a mail account. If you are using Yahoo! or Netscape, you’ll be in good hands because Yahoo! and Netscape have very good filtering options and those mails goes directly to a bulk mail folder. You can even block the senders address as well as send their mail to Yahoo! for them to be aware of it and apply farther measures. They also will immediately block their account (if created in Yahoo!-Netscape) or at least, those addresses that are external to their servers will become bulk, so they will never reach your account if you are a little careful, just not opening them.

Something is true, those bloody stupid idiots, one day get tired of sending you their rubbish, and then you’ll be in peace. If you are in a hurry, you can always close your present mail account opening a new one, one that nobody knows of course, but this is very inconvenient. I would opt for keeping your present account till things get off and stop bothering you.

Your antivirus and firewall are a MUST!!! I strongly recommend Panda Antivirus. I have switched when my Norton year finished, to Panda, cos a friend of mine recommended me this one instead. It is by far more powerful, more efficient and you get upgrades to up to FOUR TIMES PER DAY! I’ve never seen it with Norton. On plus, I have to say that Norton did not detect certain viruses that Panda Max did. It also comes with a handy and very good Firewall too. I guess that the only way to upgrade two, three of four times per day a program, the team working there is spread in different countries and they actually work 24 hours per day. That would be impossible otherwise, and this is not least than amazing! I truly recommend Panda Antivirus to everybody looking for a truly secure and powerful solution, and not at all more expensive than the average Norton or McFee VirusScan.

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