Fair warning....

Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own wayNaples, FL Icrontian
edited March 2004 in Science & Tech
If you get what appears to be an email with a patch for MyDoom from Micrososft, delete it on sight. Microsoft under NO circumstances emails virus patches, and I would not do so either.

Quote from a techrepublic virus notice in a newsletter, billed as the newsletter top story:
NEW WORM DISGUISED AS MICROSOFT UPDATE

TODAY'S TOP STORY
Sober.D, the latest variant of the mass-mailing Sober worm, is
currently infecting systems by masquerading as an official Microsoft
patch for the MyDoom worm. According to Finnish antivirus company
F-Secure, Sober.D spreads either as an executable attachment or inside
a password-protected Zip archive attached to an e-mail.

http://ct.com.com/click?q=95-Xd_rQvdzoeW4trI7_nsfZ_Pt04Ia

Be wary folks, please, about emails. I do not care who they come from, if they have attachments be very careful about opening them. My general rule, is they get spam marked and also get immediately trashed.

One thing you can do if you have Thunderbird-- it will let you see the source code. If the attachment looks like junk and Thunderbird sees it as Base64, it is probably executable-- ie a program that does something and is very likely something you do NOT want running on your computer. EVERY virus I have so looked at in Thunderbird shows as Base64, and has not tried to load when I looked at the source code. Base64 is Thunderbird's name for UPX, an archived and possibly also encrypted executable program.

Note that Bagel is at the tenth subversion, this might appear to be an email from an email server that you just got email from saying it will be down for two days or giving you other info about email. DO NOT CLICK on the attachment of any such. This is a Bagel.J worm. Network associates has more info, in detail. Bagel will NOT autoload, it needs a click on an apparent fix for something or a link for more info. What the something appears to be or is said to be is NOT at all what it is.

John D.

Comments

  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited March 2004
    omg, i dont know if anyone would be that dumb.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    there's a huge difference between dumb and uneducated, Jengo....
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    and a lot of times the two meet in a cataclysmal display of all things humanity should strive not to be.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    Man, Kanez... With all the exercise that kid in your avatar has been getting, he/she should have been losing weight by now...... :wtf:
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    why don't you tell your avatar to slice him open and give him a quickie liposuction :D
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited March 2004
    Is it just me, or does that kid seem to be getting slower every day? :) Looks to me like the poor kid is just about spent!
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    he's faster on IE than on firefox for some reason
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited March 2004
    He's also significantly faster on this 2.3GHz machine than on the 850MHz machine I posted from earlier. Surprise, surprise. :) (I honestly didn't think it would make a difference . . . I mean, how much CPU can an animated gif take? More than I thought, it seems!).
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    Ageek wrote:
    If you get what appears to be an email with a patch for MyDoom from Micrososft, delete it on sight. Microsoft under NO circumstances emails virus patches, and I would not do so either.

    You're preaching to the choir. This message is better directed towards our non-geek friends and family who, while intelligent, are absolutely clueless when it comes to computers.
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