jp kabala

There is a variant on the Beagle worm floating about and
Norton is NOT catching it, even if your definitions are completely up to
date.

If you receive an e-mail with some sort of bogus warning and a .zip
attachment
with an .exe inside, and the e-mail says that you'll need a provided
password
to open the attachment, trash it unopened.

I just got one that looked like it was from my web hosting company-- I'm
a suspicious sort, so I scanned it and it came up clean, but I still
didn't trust it, so I called my host. It did not come from them.

I've submitted the file to Symantec, but it will probably take 24-48 hours
for them to get a cure out there

carol ott

I got one of those yesterday and sent a response saying I don't accept
e-mail attachments from strangers. The message was odd -- something to do
with graphic design, but it had a zip file attached, and the e-mail address
didn't seem right.

The e-mail didn't bounce back, but I blacklisted them just in case.

Carol

rastin mehr

Another Windows worm? Yaawwwn!

(back to work)

Rastin

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eric gill

My reaction, too.

Of course, not being an Outlook user has proven just as effective as not
having a Windows box.

tina - affordablehost.com

Not sure if you are hosted with us...but yes, something with our name (and
other hosts) is going around. I'm about to send out a warning to all of our
customers. The @#%* thing looks JUST like something we might send out,
except we would NEVER send out an email with a file attachment.

Again, if you get an attachment that says you need a password to open
it...delete it, unopened, ASAP!

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carol ott

Does it help if you don't use Outlook? I dumped it as my mail program.

Carol

rastin mehr

Yes, if they don't self execute. I don't think if this one does. Most of
the viruses and worms activate because some uninformed user double
clicks on them.

I actually got one in my mailbox today, I just dumped it. But even if I
would double click it couldn't run on my machine. I'm not using Windows.

Rastin

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