Yup, Gibe worm taking its rounds again. I've been receiving it for about
a week already from various sources. This worm also hides its origin by
using a random address it stole from the victim's address book in From
and Reply-To, so you don't even have a chance to notify the victim that
her computer is infected.
A decent up-to-date resident anti-virus is a must these days...
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"Noons" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam> wrote in message
news:Xns933BEA780CE6Tokenthis_at_210.49.20.254...
> Following up on Norman Dunbar, 11 Mar 2003:
>
> > I've just received my fifth email (today) entitled 'check out this new
> > patch from microsoft' with an exe file attached. This one seems to have
> > harvested this list for victims as all the names on the 'to' field are
> > very familiar names from this list. Our virus scanner picked it up and
> > binned the exe file attached.
>
> W32 virus. Yahoo's AVcheck picked it up. Been doing the rounds
> for about two weeks now... Annoying, but harmless if you
> don't open anything.
>
>
> >
> > Just a warning, but I suspect that no-one on this list would be silly
> > enough to believe that Microsoft sends patches from a Hotmail account -
> > I certainly didn't, but someone out there has done :o(
>
> You bet...
>
>
> --
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam
Received on Tue Mar 11 2003 - 06:28:52 CST
