Virus Alert

[Purple Haze]

>>>> Subject: New Virus
>>>
>>> #1 Please forward to everyone you know.....they will be
>>> grateful. There is a virus out now being sent to
>>> people via E-mail. It is considered the aids virus
>>> of computers.
>>
>> It will destroy your memory, sound card
>>> and speakers, your hard drive and it will infect your
>>> mouse or pointing devices as well as your keyboards,
>>> making it so that you can't type and it will not
>>> register on the screen. It self-terminates only after
>>> it eats 5MB of hard drive space and will delete all
>>> programs.
>> It will come via E-mail called "OPEN: VERY COOL!".
>>>
>>> DELETE IT immediately! It will basically render your
>>> computer useless. Pass this on QUICKLY AND TO AS MANY
>>> PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE.
>>>
>>>
>>> #2 Very Urgent-Must Read Please. If you receive an E-mail
>>> titled "Win A Holiday" DO NOT open it. It will erase
>>> everything on your hard drive. Forward this letter out
>>> to as many people as you can. This is a new, very
>>> malicious virus and not many people know about it. This
>>> information was announced yesterday morning from Microsoft.
>>>
>>> Thank You,
>>>
>>> Neil Ferrick
>>> Compaq Computer Corporation

>"VIRUS WITH NO CURE"
>
>PLEASE, SEND THIS INFORMATION TO EVERY PERSON IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK IF
>YOU RECEIVE AN E-MAIL THAT
>READS "UPGRADE INTERNET2" DO NOT OPEN IT, AS IT CONTAINS AN EXECUTABLE
>NAMED "PERRIN.EXE." IT WILL
>ERASE ALL THE DATA IN YOUR HARD DRIVE AND IT WILL STAY IN MEMORY. EVERY
>TIME THAT YOU UPLOAD ANY
>DATA, IT WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY ERASED AND YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO USE
>YOUR COMPUTER AGAIN.
>
>THIS INFORMATION WAS PUBLISHED YESTERDAY IN THE CNN WEB SITE. THIS IS A
>VERY DANGEROUS VIRUS. TO
>THIS DATE, THERE IS NO KNOWN ANTIVIRUS PROGRAM FOR
>
>THIS PARTICULAR VIRUS.
>
>PLEASE, FORWARD THIS INFORMATION TO YOUR FRIENDS, SO THAT THEY WILL BE
>ON THE ALERT. ALSO CHECK
>THE LIST BELOW SENT BY IBM, WITH THE NAMES OF SOME E-MAIL THAT, IF
>RECEIVED, SHOULD NOT BE OPENED
>AND MUST BE DELETED IMMEDIATELY, BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN ATTACHED VIRUSES.
>THIS WAY YOUR COMPUTER
>WILL BE SAFE.
>
>THE TITLES ARE:
>
>01) buddylst.exe
>02) calcu18r.exe
>03) deathpr.exe
>04) einstein.exe
>05) happ.exe
>06) girls.exe
>07) happy99.exe
>08) japanese.exe
>09) keypress.exe
>10) kitty.exe
>11) monday.exe
>12) teletubb.exe
>13) The Phantom Menace
>14) prettypark.exe
>15) UP-GRADE INTERNET2
>16) perrin.exe
>17) I love You
>18) CELCOM Screen Saver or CELSAVER.EXE
>19) Win a Holiday (e-mail)
>20) JOIN THE CREW O PENPALS
>
>ONCE AGAIN, DO NOT OPEN THESE E-MAILS AND PASS THIS INFORMATION ONTO
>YOUR FRIENDS AS SOON AS
>POSSIBLE
>
>
>




[Edited by Purple Haze on 11-14-2000 at 03:15 PM]

 

[Cheri]

http://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/cs/virushoaxes/index.htm

 

[Purple Haze]

Are you telling me this is a hoax, Cheri?

 

[Nobody Special]

Hey everybody.. I have a question for you.. I do I do...

Question:
What is the fastest way to spread a Virus??

Answer:
Send it in an Email labled "Virus Warnig" or somthing similar.

People attach the virus to these messages and then send to people. The messages usually explain wht the Virus is and how people can get them by telling them about the virus.. what people don't know is that people don't know that they are sending them to their freinds and spreading the Virus around in the "Warrnings". My advice is if you get a warning, regardless of who sent it to you just delete it and forget about it.. it is not worth the headache of getting and having a virus..

and PLEASE DO NOT SEND OUT VIRUS WARRNIGS, they may have the a Virus attached to them..

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[Purple Haze]

My good deed for the day.

 

[Sammyjo]

My understanding is that you MUST open an attachment to spread a virus...Weird Harold? You know the answer...

I send out mass mailings of the NAMES of the viruses, but never the virus itself to my contacts. I do not copy/paste or forward off of virus attached mail. I write them onto paper and then type them into the mail, as if I were writing you a letter. If you ever receive something from me about viruses, rest assured, it does not have a virus attached to it...I am not a moron.

 

[Cheri]

My good deed for the day.

Didn't mean to kick your teeth in and pull out your tonsils, I just ignore all those *VIRUS WARNING* thingies. I figure if it is a big deal like Melissa, other sources besides forwards will warn me about it long long before it hits me. Besides to get a virus you do have to open an attachment, and I don't do that even if I do know the person.

 

[Ezzy]

They say you don't...

Have to open an attatchment for all virus's to run.

If you have a preview pane up on your mail collection program, some virus's are in the E mail itself not only as attatchments.


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[Weird Harold]

My understanding is that you MUST open an attachment to spread a virus...Weird Harold? You know the answer...

Ezzy already answered this -- sort of.

In most cases, a program containing a virus must be executed for the virus to infect your computer. "Viruses" like the KAK worm are actually worm programs rather than actual 'viruses'.

The distinction is really rather meaningless. Worms and viruses both can damage your data.

If your mail program can process HTML code in a message, it is NOT necessary to open an attachment to be infected. An HTML routine can be hidden in an E-Mail that will run the virus, tap into your address book, and send the virus on to all of your friends.

Users of Microsoft Outlook are most vulnerable to this method of spreading viruses, because it is the most common E-Mail program in use. The KAK worm spreads by adding the activating HTML code the signature block in Outlook. It seems logical that other viruses would do something similar.

There are a lot of malicious JAVA scripts floating about as well. Using a virus protection program that includes realtime virus checking and online "web-trapping" of malicious stuff coming from the web or your e-mail.

I use PC-Cillin from Trend Microsystems. It seems to be more thorough than Norton or MacAfee from what I can tell. Of course, the fact that it came free with my motherboard has a lot to do with me using it.