I have been up all freaking night, can’t sleep but ran into a report by ZDNet, Norton AntiVirus, Reuters and McAfee, so I am pretty sure this is real.
Here are the basics:
You may recieve a mail and in the subject like it will read “FWD:xxx.ext”
An example, your friend or co-worker opened up a document that was MayBudget.doc. The subject line will read:
FWD: MayBudget.doc.
The file attachment will read:
MayBudget.doc.vbs
I am pretty sure that all people that receive email are vulnerable to this, not just Outlook users…much like the last one, but if you have Outlook it is the means to replicate from your address book.
The deadly part that is being reported is, it will completely wipe out hard drives and for those of you on a network, will wipe out networked drives.
Also, those that use NT or Win2000, will have a variant to the above.
Techchick, thanks for the heads up. I forwarded it to my husband, in case he hasn’t heard about it. -Sigh- if this thing gets into his office I guess it’s going to be another all nighter.
No problem…I am seriously thinking about heading into the office, at 5:00 in the morning now, and shutting down our email server until I can get the virus updates installed on the local machines.
McAfee and Norton, both have a patch. McAfee really boogered up their site damnit!
I looked at F-secure, aka datafellows.com and they state it’s not wide spread. But after the last one, I don’t want to take any chances We had multiple instances of people receiving it. As a network admin I was lucky enough that I emailed them all in time.
We had multiple instances of people receiving it. As a network admin I was lucky enough that I emailed them all in time.