Goner Virus -- email virus wreaking havoc on web

www.mcafee.com ^ | December 4, 2001 | Christopher M. Hoss

[topher]

http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99272&

The above web link describes the GONER VIRUS/WORM and the potential damage.

The good news is that YOU MUST OPEN THE SCREENSAVER ATTACHMENT TO BE INFECTED.

Evidence that your PC is infected is the presence of the file GONE.SCR

The McAfee Web Server is overloaded by people trying to get into the site.

Here is a CLICKABLE link to the McAfee web site:

Goner Virus Info from McAfee (12/04/2001)

This virus has appeared on the Internet just today (Tuesday, December 4, 2001).

I can email people information about the virus, but I have it in Microsoft Doc/RTF format currently because it had pictures and graphics about what appears on the PC.

[don-o]

if your marketing dept promotes product you can't deliver, you're screwed.

In our young company, Marketing is also tasked with product development. We are small enough to make that work. Our customers demands are not great, and any small innovation can be a gold mine. And the coolest thing is that once one customer rolls out something we have helped develop, then his competitors are hot to duplicate it.

if your techs tell your marketeers it can be done, and it can't, you're screwed.

We view the techs as tools, like a software app to be used, abused and discarded and upgraded or replaced as necessary in order to get the mission accomplished. They are plug and play components. I know that sounds cold, but there it is.

however, if the technical wisdom and marketing prowess come together in harmony..

I love it when that happens, but if it does not, we just reconfigure and carry on.

[footstomper]

Well you can contend whatever you want about the 'chicks' but you sure showed your level of comprehension.

[Salo]

We use Lotus Notes. Superior email. Superior groupware. No viruses piggybacking the mail - we catch it and innoculate it at the firewall.

We use Groupwise and have the same advantages. We block attachments such as .pif, .scr and .vbs because there is no legitmate reason to allow them in.

[antivenom]

go to rededit on the run bar.....the rest is at www.mcafee.com...will give you step by step fix

[antivenom]

oops typo...regedit

[Salo]

I contend that the vast majority of idiots who open attachements like this are chicks. They all send themselves so many stupid emails all day long that they could not possibly identify which are real and which aren't.

I do tend to notice our ladies tend to send more crap email (like Christmas cards and the like) than our male employees. On the other hand, we have yet to fire a woman for surfing porn at work.

P.S. You are going to catch holy living hell for saying that.

[Neanderthal]

"It's not named "gone," and I got it from a German yesterday"

I received the "WORM_BADTRAN.B" worm from a German today too. I saved the file, which had been named "IMAGE.doc.pif" and checked it with PC-cillin. PC-cillin was able to get rid of it since I hadn't opened it.

My first e-mail virus ever . . . whew . . .

[SFmom]

The very same thing just happened to me! I wrote my friend back warning her because this virus obviously attaches to people's email and sends itself!

[Centurion2000]

We had two people open this up. They decided to go to web sites with anonymous email accounts and open it from there as this thing died a horrible death as soon as it started trying to crawl through our mail network.

Not too bad .... but the guys that got hit in our building (1000+ staff) were IT staff (project manager and software developer of all people)

They'll never live this one down :)

[xm177e2]

that's funny, there was another doc.exe file or something. It was all very weird, I don't think I activated it.

[JRandomFreeper]

I always would invite to go out to the bar and pick up some women. That would shut them up fast, because deep down inside they knew that they were Nerds, and completely unable to interact with a real live woman.

I don't "pick up women", but I am geek that can interact quite effectivly with real live women. I have a wonderful family to show for those skills.

That said, "Unless you have a customer, you don't have a business". Marketing and sales are the ones that bring the $$s in.

/john

[Rodney King]

P.S. You are going to catch holy living hell for saying that.

Already have. Notice, not a single one of them refuted the statement- they just resorted to ad hominem attacks.

[BFO]

Thanks, I went to mcafee and I think I'm clean. At least mcafee was clear about doing the registry edit in safe mode. And, of course, I couldn't delete the gone.scr file in my windows system folder unless I was in safe mode. I think. Hopefully, I'm done sending this thing to my whole e-world. Thanks again.

[Semper911]

not a single one of them refuted the statement

Today I extracted a floppy disk from a co-worker's drive because HE put it in upside down. I kid you not. I argued with another co-worker yesterday about the print cartridrige being the right one for his printer. He said it didn't fit, but then I showed him how to take off the protective cover first.

Those of us in my building who know about computers help the IT staff by solving small problems and putting out the minor brush fires. And we have a secret saying when we take care of something that was caused by someone's idiocy: we call it an i-dee-ten-tee error. That's how it is pronounced, but if you spell it out, it's ID10T. There are many ID10Ts in my building, but they certainly are not all "chicks."

[Rodney King]

I didn't say that all computer idiots were chicks. I said that the people who spread viruses by opening attachment were (I didn't say all, I said vast majority). There is a reason for this - women tend to send each other tons and tons of chain mails with graphics attached. Therefore, they are more likely to open them. My experiences have borne this out. I really do think it is a legitimate postion.

[Salo]

And we have a secret saying when we take care of something that was caused by someone's idiocy: we call it an i-dee-ten-tee error. That's how it is pronounced, but if you spell it out, it's ID10T. There are many ID10Ts in my building, but they certainly are not all "chicks."

We actually use ID-10-T as a helpdesk code in our call tracking software. :-) My (female, not that it matters) boss finally let us have it when the same lady ran a document with wet white out on it through a laser printer for the third time in a month. We couldn't come up with a better description.

[BFO]

You brought back a great memory from my working teen summers.

I worked in an appliance warehouse, and every day we'd load the trucks for their deliveries. The foreman had a list of serial numbers in his hand, with an entry level scrub like me (but not me, honest) up on the lift, about 20 feet in the air, trying to find a certain product. Flustered that the kid couldn't find the product by the serial number that had been called up to him, the foreman told the kid to tell him what the numbers were on some of the boxes he could see. The kid dutifully yelled down R-A-D Ten. Puzzled, the foreman kept looking over his paperwork. looking for that Serial # until he finally said "You $%&^@&@$&!&*, that's a $!^%$&^@*@* RADIO!!.

I couldn't work for almost the rest of the day, I had the giggles so bad.

[Capt. Tom]

My first e-mail virus ever . . . whew . . .

Your first virus? You have to get out more on the internet groups. You have been leading a sheltered life.

If I go two days without getting a virus warning I think my virus scan is not working. If you recognize the sender, e-mailing him or her about the virus may not work because some viruses will alter the e- mail addresss so it won't go to the apparent sender. Use the phone to alert the person if it is practical. -Tom

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[motzman]

I don't "pick up women", but I am geek that can interact quite effectivly with real live women. I have a wonderful family to show for those skills

Obviously, this does not apply to you, but I'm sure you know some geeks who fit into this category. And "pick up women" is just a fast way of saying "forging a meaningful relationship with a young lady that shares similar interests and goals..." but that takes too long to type.

I've (kinda) been on both sides of the fence here; the sales aspect is MUCH harder than the tech part (IMHO). Not to say I don't respect the Tech's, but everyone loves dumping on the salesmen, so I'm a little sensitive to the topic...

Anybody got any tissues? (sniff, sniff)