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SalmanKhana
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USA
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 Posted - 21 July 2001 : 06:30:41
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hey i also got this email .. here is what yahoo says about it
"Experts: File-Deleting Sircam Email Virus Spreading
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A new e-mail virus that can delete files from infected computer hard drives has spread to users in more than 50 countries in the past week, a security expert said on Friday.
The virus, nicknamed W32.Sircam, arrives as an email attachment and can affect any type of email program, said Mark Sunner, chief technology officer of UK-based MessageLabs, a provider of virus filtering services to corporations.
The virus, a self-propagating worm that has English and Spanish-language versions, sends copies of itself and a random file from the infected computer's hard drive to all addresses in the infected computer's address book, security experts said.
In some but not all instances, Sircam deletes files and directories and can fill up the hard drive, according to the experts.
The worm was discovered on Monday and is spreading so quickly that Symantec Corp. (NasdaqNM:SYMC - news) has raised its rating of the worm's danger threat to a 4 out of a possible 5, said Steve Trilling, director of research at Symantec.
Trilling said his lab receives reports of five to 15 new viruses every day, although those include many viruses that have not been released into ``the wild,'' the industry term for those that have infected working computers.
There were more than 200 viruses reported to be in the wild in June, with 4 of those being new ones, according to a Web site that tracks statistics on computer viruses (http://www.wildlist.org).
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Spoon
Average Member
Ireland
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Posted - 21 July 2001 : 07:59:13
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Thanks for the warning :)
Regards,
Spoon, (ya all love me right?) |
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gor
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Netherlands
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SalmanKhana
Average Member
USA
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Posted - 21 July 2001 : 17:38:39
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ok and the best thing is, The pandasoftware people have free online virus scanners that i used to detect those viruses.... that is the latest you can get !!
so if u want a Free Latest Strongest virus protection, go to pandasoftware.com .....
oo and the best thing is !!! you can have the free online virus scanner Button on your home page too...... I bet that can increase your traffic guyz 
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gor
Retired Admin
Netherlands
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Posted - 21 July 2001 : 17:45:01
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ok and the best thing is, The pandasoftware people have free online virus scanners that i used to detect those viruses.... that is the latest you can get !!
so if u want a Free Latest Strongest virus protection, go to pandasoftware.com .....
oo and the best thing is !!! you can have the free online virus scanner Button on your home page too...... I bet that can increase your traffic guyz
Well...the last thing we coold/can use is more traffic to the site here...but for others, here is a direct link: http://www.pandasoftware.com/
Hmm...don't really like the combination of ActiveX and virus(scanners)....
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RaiderUK
Average Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 22 July 2001 : 06:11:45
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Take a look at http://www.virus.com/ gives you all the info on the lates viruses, and if you sign up for the mailing list the will send you info on all the new viruses when they know about them, i get a few warnings a week and it helps alot.
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KC
Junior Member
USA
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Posted - 31 July 2001 : 11:32:53
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I have been receiving this virus/worm e-mail 50 times a day since last week.
In short:
The sender e-mail address will be the infected users.
The topic will be, depending on the users e-mail program, a topic he has sent or received before pulled randomly from an e-mail.
The body of the e-mail contains the text:
Hi! How are you?
I send you this file in order to have your advice
See you later. Thanks
The file attached is a random file from the users computer, with the viruse embeeded into the start of it, and a second random extention added to it to allow it to opened, like .bat, .exe, .pdf, etc.
When activated, it searches all local and network drives for e-mail address.
It then uses it's OWN SMTP mail program and sends itself out continuly until it is removed.
The first day it broke out, I got 600 of these e-mails the 1st day, 800 the second.
It's calmed down some, I get like 50 a day now.
What really hurts is when a guy with a cable modem that stays connected 24/7 gets it, and your on his mailing list!
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Doug G
Support Moderator
USA
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Posted - 31 July 2001 : 11:59:52
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This virus appeared July 17th. You can get a removal tool which I know works at www.symantec.com/avcenter
This virus will propagate itself across a LAN.
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tomasalsbro
Average Member
Sweden
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Posted - 31 July 2001 : 14:07:07
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ok and the best thing is, The pandasoftware people have free online virus scanners that i used to detect those viruses.... that is the latest you can get !!
so if u want a Free Latest Strongest virus protection, go to pandasoftware.com .....
Well...the last thing we coold/can use is more traffic to the site here...but for others, here is a direct link: http://www.pandasoftware.com/
Hmm...don't really like the combination of ActiveX and virus(scanners)....
Pierre
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Well guys,
tehy seems to be busy at Pandasoftware! HTTP/1.1 Server Too Busy
Tomas
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SalmanKhana
Average Member
USA
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Posted - 01 August 2001 : 02:27:07
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yeah ofcourse they would be busy today ... as millions of ppl r so scared about the red worm virus
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gor
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big brother
Starting Member
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Posted - 01 August 2001 : 10:39:51
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a colleague didn't update his NAV virus definitions and got hit by this thing. it spread all across the network to everyones machine.
with its built in smtp agent i am telling you the thing is a b*tch.
it isn't too hard to remove though.
for the last week i have been receiving emails from people i have never heard of. in a couple of cases i recognised the email address as ones from websites i had visited earlier, it must of searched my temporary internet filez and posted to all the mailto's or something.
clever b*stards you would think they would do something more contructive with their time.
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SalmanKhana
Average Member
USA
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Posted - 04 August 2001 : 00:18:45
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LOL @ big brother  
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