Nimda Virus Alert

[Sabertooth]

I got this from a friend at Microsoft following attorney General Ashcroft's mention of the "nimda virus" at his press conference today. Ashcroft didn't know if it was some form of cyber-war, and neither do I... But I'm posting here because of the possibility.

If I'm mistaken in this you can let me have it with barrels blazing, because I'm new to the Freeper thing.

Regards,

Sabertooth

ps. One other suggestion: Get a Mac, as we're probably immune again.

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[verity]

The Washington Times!

[motexva]

It nailed my workplace today, they told everybody to get off the Internet and to only send emails within the office, by 4 they said no email whatsoever.

[IamConservative]

i got this nasty little bug today because I had a folder on my machine with a public share. This one is proactive.. Most of the worms require that you do something stupid, this one hunts for electronic vulnerablity.

[newsperson999]

COMPUTER VIRUS WARNINGS..CLICK

[cerberus]

I have received 3 contaminated e-mails today. One had "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" in the subject line, a second one had "January 20" and the third said "cv-annie". Fortunately, my Norton A/V quarantined all of them.

[Eric Esot]

Am well aware of this one – I run a Linux network and am affected by the traffic of this thing as it propagates throughout. It started at about 10:00 am pacific and has been escalating at a rapid rate. At present, I'm getting approximately 4000 HTTP port probes (um, web hits), against each one of my Linux boxes(web servers), an hour.

It's really depressing.

[Jaxter]

Well, there's no viruses for OS/2 either. I mean, hey, why bother?

[Eric Esot]

Um – what happened to my post #5?

[mrustow]

I got an extemely suspicious e-mail yesterday. It contained only 642 bites, had an attachment, and a return address of "nobody." I deleted it without opening it, because I suspected it contained a virus.

I have deleted many virus messages in the past two months alone. Most were the same virus from different addresses: "Please advise." But I had never previously gotten one without a return address, which makes me believe that this was not random.

Context: The previous day, I had written to an American-based PLO website, mediamonitors.net, asking the editor and founder, Muhammad Ali Khan, if he had any response to a hoax that someone had prepetrated at FR in the name of media monitors. The post had claimed that a (bogus) report had shown that Israel's Mossad had prepetrated the 911 attacks. JimRob deleted the post and shut down the poster (TruthBites (mediamonitors.net), but not before I copied it. I never got a signed response from Muhammad Ali Khan, though I did get an immediate response from someone else I'd written, who was implicated by the bogus report, saying it was news to him.

[Terriergal]

Hubby got SirCam through his work network share on his laptop. No one even USES outlook in the company. The only way it could have gotten into the company is if someone using their home computer got it through Outlook, then connected with the same computer to their work dialup network connection. *SIGH* when will people ever learn...

[Terriergal]

Hubby got SirCam

I should have said he found Sir Cam files but of course, using lotus Notes none of them were ever opened, so he wasn't actually infected.

[InfraRed]

This may be a false alarm, but I just called the FBI...

Yemenis Abroad 1157 Entries so far

Name : A.A.A Ali
Currently residing in: america
E-Mail :ysana03@hotmail.com
Homepage :http://www.hackers.com
Describing him/herself and his/her activites A.A.A Ali Says:
hello i am a computer hacker and need another
computer engineer to help me make a virus
get in touch with me as soon as possible i am willing
to pay up to $5,000

Submitted On Saturday, September 08, 2001 at 08:27:11 (CDT) by A.A.A Ali

[Jaxter]

I have about 500 email accounts and my antivirus proxy server went from catching about maybe 4 or 5 a day on average to over a dozen a day in the past week. Most of these are old viruses that obviously originate from people that do not have English as their native tongue. I mean they spell Snow White - Snowhite. Then again maybe they're college students who hate the draft. Who knows?

[lakey]

I had Norton put 3 Show Whites into Quarantine, and some months, they later escaped. At the same time, messages that I had deleted reappeared. Had to uninstall and reinstall -- tried a new user name -- lo and behold, what came back but Snow White. I was very careful of adding people back to my e-mail list, too.

This morning, on Google, a notification that the area I was in was infected with the BloodhoundHybrid virus.

[farmer18th]

Our ISP got hit with this today--a small guy running a small shop; it sounds like he's about to lost it..

[farmer18th]

or maybe even "lose" it.

[runningbear]

wow....sad to hear.... last week at work we had, 'as you requested' type virus. I know not to open up anything I don't know. Updated on the NAV....