[-No Way-]

Check yer' machines! Especially if you use MS Outlook!!

[asneditor]

This is a real booger of a virus folks!!!! We have been battling it with our users for two days now. Heads Up!
Bit of advice, use Eudora email program. This will prevent you from opening attachments automatically.

[mercy]

Somebody help this ole techno-illiterati out. I'm using Windows 3.1 (I think, circa 1996), and Netscape 4.7. I have a Dell XPS P200 machine and a crappy dial up connecton. Can I even get this virus?

[Constitution Day]

It hit our office yesterday.

The IT manager has been having one hell of a time!

[Rodney King]

So what you are saying is that just by receiving the email you can get this even if you don't open the attachment?

[TomGuy]

Another good way to prevent most infections:

Use a pre-screening program, such as MailWasher or ScanMail to see mail headers on the server. Then delete those that look suspicious; after scanning, you can preview them through the pre-scan or open your regular email program.

MailWasher
ScanMail

[Semper911]

Why does ANYone still use Outlook? It is beyond me. Microsoft knows about the open port problem, but they continue to ship version after version with the same goddamned problem. They could care less. Read their license agreement sometime.

Run Netscape 4.7x for browsing and mail (avoid v.6.x). To reduce your exposure to .exe attachments, buy a Mac. If you must run Windoze, Eudora is a fine e-mail app.

Anyone who uses Outlook for mail is just asking to be delivered to hell, and I find it hard to have sympathy for them. It's not like this is new and unheard of.

[Phantom Lord]

Warning! Warning! Warning! Dangerous bug around! Bad Times Virus!

If you receive an e-mail entitled "Bad Times," delete it immediately! Do not open it! Apparently this one is pretty nasty. It will not only erase everything on your hard drive, it will also delete anything on disks within 20 feet of your computer.

It demagnetizes the strips on all of your credit cards. It reprograms your ATM access code, screws up the tracking on your VCR, and uses subspace field harmonics to scratch any CDs you attempt to play. It will program your phone auto dial to call only 900 numbers. The virus will mix antifreeze into your fish tank. It will cause your toilet to flush while you are showering. It will drink all of your beer.

For God's sake, are you listening to me?

It will leave dirty underwear on the coffee table when you are expecting company. It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with Rogaine, all the while dating your current boy- or girlfriend behind your back and billing the hotel rendezvous to your Visa card, which has been wiped clean.

It will cause you to run with scissors and throw things in a way that is only fun till someone loses an eye. It will rewrite your backup files, change all of your active verbs to passive tense, and incorporate undetectable misspellings which will grossly change the interpretations of key sentences.

If the badness message is opened in a Windows 95 or 98 environment, it will leave the toilet seat up and leave your hair dryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub. It will not only remove the forbidden tags from your mattress and pillows, it will also refill your skim milk with whole milk.

Warn as many people as you can! If you don't send this to 5,000 people within 20 seconds, you'll expel gas so hard your right leg will spasm and shoot straight out in front of you, sending sparks that will ignite the person next to you!

Be careful with this one.

[upchuck]

Ahhh, the joys of running Netscape V4.74, Norton's Antivirus (updated at least once a week) and Zone Alarm Firewall. Receive an average of 3-4 viruses per week. Never been harmed by any of them.

You folks running Outlook or Outlook express are just inviting big trouble. I can understand your not liking Netscape, but Eudora has a swell email client and it is as free as Outlook and not nearly as prone to viruses. HEADS UP!

[Dan from Michigan]

Bump. I got hit with it(Friend's email)

Cleaned it out. What a pain.

[E.G.C.]

One thing that I want to add to this discussion is that when you run disk defragmenter or scandisk. During those operations it lets you know when the contents of your dsk drive change

Under normal circumstances it would change every ten minutes. After I had the first virus,(W32VBSKakworm), The disk contents changed every 30 seconds. This second worm,(W32Badtrans.B@mm). Even though I cleaned my computer of it, the disk contents keep changing every two minutes. The more often the disk contents change, the more difficult it is to run disk defragmenter and Scandisk.

I cuaght this worm on Thursday and immediately deleted it.

[imjustme]

I have been getting a couple a day. They all are 40k with no message in the body. This is all in my yahoo inbox. I have been deleting them as they come in. The first couple I opened (that is how I found out there was no message) and cut and pasted the emails to let the people know they might have a virus. All of these have re: in the subject line with no subject. The email addys have a _ in front so you can't just hit reply and send.
Anyway since these are coming through my yahoo mail can they do any damage??
In outlook I have gotten a couple that I ignored because I didn't know how to delete them. Something happened to the Norton that was installed and I can't find it now. It went missing about the same time the driver to my cd rom left. Don't know where they went or if they are connected.
I ran the panda scan last night and it found a kak and got rid of it.
I agree with the poster who said it can be spread through mailing lists. I am on several rootsweb lists and the virus isn't coming through the list itself but through members that are on the same lists as I am. That seems to be where mine are coming from. I haven't seen any coming from members of any yahoo groups lists I am on. All the rootsweb lists I am on have had alot of problems.
ps...does anyone know how I can find my cd-rom driver??

[OnAMission]

Yep...it's a bugger for sure! Norton caught it on my system only after I did the live update. It had already infected 3 files. It didn't get to the server, luckily.

Norton AV couldn't fix the files as of yesterday, and could only quarantine. I'll try the "panda" site to see if they can be fixed. If not, my computer guy says a re-format may be needed! Ugh!