Watchout For The Email Virus!!!!!!!!!

[mercurywaters]

there is a virus going around. its contained in an email with the subject line something like "mail connection failed". it has an attachment with a virus. do not open it! someone just sent it to me. it came from jsw219@psu.edu. its good practice to not open emails with attachments from someone you don't know anyway. heads up people.

 

[WingsOfAnAngel]

word up merc :thumb:
watch out everybody, W32.Novarg.A@mm is spreadin' like there's no tomorrow!

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.novarg.a@mm.html

Take Care,
Wings

 

[Tim D]

Good looks Merc, thank for the heads up

 

[Shonsteez]

I read on yahoo's homepage that this virus is apparently a Big Fuck You to tha manopoliztion against Linux heads, so these assholes created this thing to piss them off.
It also has a trigger date to stop spreading/DoS-attacking on February 12, 2004. While the worm will stop on February 12, 2004, the backdoor component will continue to function after this date.

Its basically gonna 'morph' and start causin more trouble on that date if they cant figure out how to stop it...

Note: Its also called MyDoom - dont open that shit!! And report these emails to your mail provider! I just check it as spam and its automatically deleted and it never comes back, for this virus in paticular tho i think it can keep sending its self to you because it reports back and then in 30 seconds sends out a email to everyone in your address book.

 

[vitaminman]

Hey,

Not sure if you have it? Read this:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/mydoom.asp#howtotell

Nick