McAfee: VIRUS ALERT - W32/Fbound.c@MM

McAfee email ^ | March 14, 2002

[TomGuy]

----- Original Message -----

From: McAfee.com Dispatch

Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 3:28 PM

Subject: VIRUS ALERT - W32/Fbound.c@MM

McAfee.com has seen a large and growing number of computers infected with W32/Fbound.c@MM. This MEDIUM-ON-WATCH RISK virus is a pure mass-mailing worm. It does not carry any other, damaging, payload. The virus sends itself to all users found in the Windows Address book using SMTP. It arrives in an email message containing the following information:

Subject: "Important" or a Japanese subject

Body: [empty]

Attachment: patch.exe

When run, it immediately e-mails itself to all entries in the Windows address book. It does not install itself in any way. It contains the text "I-Worm.Japanize".

As always, McAfee.com recommends that you keep your anti-virus software up-to-date for the best protection.

McAfee.com will continue to update you on the latest details of the W32/Fbound.c@MM virus, click here.

Sincerely,

McAfee.com

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

I got hit with a variant of this yesterday, it wasn't fun, and spent the better part of 12 hrs fixing the problems and notifying everyone about the danger of opening the emails they were getting from my computer.

[Diddle E. Squat]

The F Bomb virus?