Virus scan

[Norm reynolds]

Just a reminder UPDATE YOUR VIRUS SCAN there is a new one that running like wild fire in the last five mins seven of then tryed to get in my p/c but bettewn Nortons and AVG virus scans they were blocked Its getting to the point that I update every day and run ad-aware just to keep my p/c save

[Mr. T]

This virus (worm) just tried to get into my computer system, but Norton stopped it! Anybody else get this worm yet, it includes a couple attachments.

WORM_MIMAIL.R

[Belair62]

How does it present itself in your mailbox ??? any signs to look for ?

[JChlupsa]

Received this from out Computer folks here at Hickam
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<font color="red">The worm arrives via SMTP email with a random subject line and message body of

"The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has been sent

as a binary attachment". The attachment will have a file extension of .exe, .pif,

.scr,or .zip
</font>

[Mr. T]

When I went into my inbox, under Sender, it said (Mail Delivery Subsystem) Under the Subject, it said (Returned mail: see transcript for details) I thought this was an e-mail I sent out earlier this morning and was returned for some reason. I opened it up and it showed this under each plain text attachment.

------------------ Virus Warning Message (on the network)

message.pif is removed from here because it contains a virus.

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------------------ Virus Warning Message (on the network)

Found virus WORM_MIMAIL.R in file message.pif
The file is deleted.

[jg95z28]

I've received emails with 32k attachements and the subject varies from HI to HELLO to UPDATE. Be careful.

[Norm reynolds]

Man this is a major one Nortons is calling it a level four virus
We are having an ice storm here so I have a 4x4 and drove my wife to work I just left about 3. 30 pm to pick her up It is now 4.20 pm I get back and there are 20 of this virus being blocked by Nortons its coming in as W32-novara amm .txt or w32 novara .zip thank god for my anti- virus blocked them all

[mhassett]

Norm, Know of any good programs to keep out the SPAM and X-Rated stuff that is sent about 20 times a day?? I have McAffee but not helping, they still get thru.
Thanks, Mark

[Belair62]

You need to get Spybot and get rid of the Spyware that is on your computer....it stopped almost all the goofy crap and speeds up the computer

[JoeG]

A friend of mine is cleaning up my computer and he is using a Norton System ---it Really got tagged heavy with VIRUS.