Email Virus/Worm on the prowl, watch out.

[chuyler1]

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/technology/2795488/detail.html

Don't open any attachments you get, even if you recognize the address. I got two of these on my work account and three on my personal account. Luckily I was smart enough not to open it.

Update your virus definitions if you have AV software installed.

 

[mazdaspeedpower]

werd, heard about that today from my dad, who works at a hight tech type place, and they were having some trouble with it.

 

[CitizenPro]

That sucks! and people who do that get joy out of it.

 

[Volley2six]

I got it at work today. I got a voicemail from our IT department about it and still opened it like a retard. It was sent from "System Administrator" telling me some email I sent was undeliverable...but alas, it was a virus.

 

[chuyler1]

I work for Computer Associates, on their enterprise eTrust Antivirus product. My machine detected it at work but it came from a ca.com account so someone must not have had AV running. The worm prolly got ahold of the exchange mailing list and sent it out to everyone in the company or a big chunk of it before it was stopped.

Here's my plug:
If you don't have Antivirus software installed visit http://www.my-etrust.com/ to demo the lastest consumer software from CA.

If your company doesn't have an antivirus solution, visit http://www.ca.com/antivirus for the product I work on. We support Windows, Linux, Solaris, HPUX, and the next release will support Mac OS X. Just imagine being able to update the virus definitions on every computer on a network with the click of a button, telling computers to run full scans in the middle of the night, or alerting administrators the second a virus is detected on the network.

 

[Volley2six]

Also you can go here:

http://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/article.cfm?articleid=2420

That's where I got my fix from.

 

[Low J.]

what virus??? Oh....you guys must use Windows

Linux Rules All !!!!!

BTW that virus is supposedly made to perform a denial of service attack against the SCO website......that's the company that is trying to sue because they're saying they own Linux......viruses suck but I'd sure like to see that DOS attack on those sumbitches.

 

[chuyler1]

Just wait until your Linux box gets rooted...then you'll understand what havoc linux worms/trojans/viruses can do.