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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: finding pasword emails. Virus ???
from an earlier email notification...IT IS A VIRUS
This is a new email-based worm that hit many European High Energy Physics sites earlier today and is now affecting sites in the US. The anti-virus companies have updates available soon, but in the meantime the SLAC email gateway has stripped on the order of 600 infected email attachments destined to SLAC users. At this time, we have no reports of infection within SLAC and we should remain safe even from those who infect their own machines by reading email from non-SLAC sources (home insititutions, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.) and then executing the "Decrypt-password.exe" file.
Here is a quote from the CIAC "Heads-Up" on this latest worm ...
There are reports this morning of DOE sites being hit by the W32/Frethem.K_at_mm worm. The worm uses its own SMTP engine to send itself to email addresses that it finds in the Microsoft Windows Address Book and in .dbx, .wab, .mbx, .eml, and .mdb files. The email message arrives with the following characteristics:
Subject: Re: Your Password!
Attachments: Decrypt-password.exe and Password.txt
Size of attachment: 48,640 bytes
The affected systems are Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows ME.
The worm exploits the "Incorrect MIME Header Can Cause IE to Execute E-mail Attachment" vulnerability (CIAC Bulletin L-066) in Microsoft Internet Explorer (version 5.01 or 5.5 without SP2).
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I have gotten one also. It appears to be some type of attempted
virus.
Its an html message that attempts to execute an attachment as an
application. The attachment is called password.txt, I assume to fool
the email filters. As far as I can tell, it didn't work on my
machine,
and I did a search through Symantec's web site for the signature, but
didn't find one. If anyone knows what to look for to tell if the
virus
did anthing, I'd appreciate the info.
Beth
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 5:14 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Hello list,
I'm getting many "finding pasword" emails from non-registered users. have you got this type of email ? is it a spam or virus ?
regards...
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