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PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 2:32 am    Post subject: W32/MyDoom virus warning. Reply with quote

If you receive a message that says something like "The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment.", or just an e-mail with a bunch of random characters and binary attachment - do not open the attachment. One of chip collectors got infected with this virus, so many of us may receive this message.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 9:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I recieved it but Norton killed it.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

my panda also killed one Smile
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I received about 10 of them, and I had a pleasure of killing all of them manually Smile

Another thing about this virus - the "From" field may contain an e-mail address you may know. This is not the person who sent you the virus! Use the first "Received" e-mail header to track the source of the virus.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 12:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

These problems would not exist, if no one uses Outlook. The stupidity of the most computer users made these attacs possible.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 12:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That reminds me.... I've been meaning to install Eudora Light.... Confused
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 1:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bah. I don't like it.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 2:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have now recieved 35 of them
Anti-virus caught them all.

I use Outlook and love it..wont use anything else.
But I do keep it safe (with NAV)

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Everyone
My NAV didn`t catch this one. Thanks to Genna for letting Me know that I
had the virus. I removed it with the fix from Symantec.

BTW I use the latest version of Eudora Pro.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 7:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, whatever e-mail program you use, you still get them, but they won't hurt, if you don't use Outlook or open them by double click Smile I use Notes and I got about 40 today... hopefully our mail server virus wall will be updated tomorrow.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 2:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gennadiy already has this virus and he seems to spread it out. I received a faked email by him this morning.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

fRaSsL wrote:
Gennadiy already has this virus and he seems to spread it out. I received a faked email by him this morning.


"From" field is forged. Each time the virus sends itself it retrieves two e-mail addresses from infected computer: one is forged into the "From" field, and then the virus sends itself to the second e-mail. To identify the source of the virus please get an IP address from the first "Received" header, then search old e-mails on your computer for this IP address.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Then somebody with your email in the address book spreads it :-/
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

fRaSsL wrote:
Then somebody with your email in the address book spreads it :-/


If you still have the e-mail and you can send me full headers I can try to determine who sends it.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Return-Path: <---removed--->
Received: from yahoo.com ([142.179.26.206]) by mailin05.sul.t-online.de
with esmtp id 1Alboq-0ntYCu0; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 23:36:28 +0100
From: ---removed---
To: ---removed---
Subject: Hello
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:38:12 -0800
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0013_2C5BD52E.B1EB7056"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Seen: false
X-TOI-SPAM: n;0;2004-01-27T22:36:41Z

Edit: Removed e-mail addresses. Genna

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