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Virus Piggybacks Microsoft Mail Worm

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up dept.

metacell writes "A virus (a version of the Chernobyl virus) infects an email worm executable (the Klez worm), and is spread along with it. " It's a damn good *delete* thing that Microsoft has been *delete* spending the last few weeks doing a *delete* security audit *delete* of all of *delete* ah never mind. My wrist hurts from deleting over a meg of mail worm viruses a day.

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  1. Re:My wrist hurts, blah, blah, blah... by bigberk · · Score: 4, Informative

    For anyone interested, this is all you need by way of procmail filter in order to never see any of this crap (kills executable attachments).

    :0 B
    *^Content-Type: (application|audio)
    *^.*name=.*\.(vb[esx]|jse?|ws [hf]|c[ho]m|bat|cmd|s hb|hta|exe|lnk|pif|scr|shs)
    /dev/null

  2. Re:Options? by Izeickl · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Bat ofcourse, seriously, check this mail client out, it has all the features you could want...Includes PGP encryption as standard too. I use The Bat all the time.

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  3. Re:Options? by Will_TA · · Score: 5, Informative
    Options away from Outlook? In Windows My university uses Pegasus, my favorite is Balsa (Linux/X Windows), Pine ('nix/Cmd Line)or Eudora (Winblows)
  4. Re:Options? by RazzleFrog · · Score: 5, Informative

    How about you just educate yourself and your coworkers instead? Email viruses are not just about the program used - they are also about ignornace. Here is a hint to get you started:

    1) Apply all security patches from Microsoft.

    I was just interupted as I was typing this by a coworker asking me about a virus (talk about synchronicity). We don't use Outlook and she wasn't infected but she printed out the email and showed it to me. Sure enough - whatever.scr. I told her to delete it immediately.

    Why did she ask me first and not print it? Because we have a policy here - which brings me to point 2:

    2) Don't open anything that isn't work related.
    3) All computers show all extensions on files.
    4) Only open files that you expected with .xls or .doc extensions only (no .doc.js, etc.).
    5) If you get anything else - then ask me or somebody else informed about the latest viruses.
    6) When in doubt, call the sender and ask if they intended to send the email.

    With all of these in place, when a virus is sent to one of our employees it does not propogate.

    I leave you with this thought. A few weeks ago somebody in another department received an email warning about a virus go around. The email said to email this warning to EVERYBODY IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. One of my coworkers received the email and asked me about it. Of course it was a hoax and I wrote an email back to the original sender telling her that she basically just sent out a manual email. If everybody sent out that email to everybody in their address book it would be a disaster. The moral of the story - ignorance is the worst virus.