RE: Virus alert

[Christopher Prosser <christopherprosser-at-yahoo.com>]

W32/SirCam-at-MM

http://www.securityportal.com/research/virus/profiles/w32sircam.html

--chris prosser

--- Dan Mauch <dmauch-at-seanet.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes but does the virus have a name so I can find a virus remover?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: emc-at-nist.gov [emc-at-nist.gov] On Behalf Of Ron Wickersham
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 1:23 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: RE: Virus alert
> 
> 
> i heard it on the radio here in northern Calif as some replicating
> virus
> that had put as many as 2000 mails in one person's inbox.  they
> reported
> it was actually two virii and the efect of the other had not been
> reported.
> the actual text of the message agreed with what the radio reported.  
> 
> i didn't pay much attention since i use pine as my mail agent running
> on Sun so it wouldn't affect me anyway.  but i did examine the
> attachments
> sent by the mailing list program and the evil stuff had been removed.
> 
> -ron
> 
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Dan Mauch wrote:
> 
> > What virus is it?. I opened from another source by since it was  a
> .TXT
> > file I didn't think it could hurt  because it said it was a
> AT0005.txt
> > file.
> > So far I haven't seen any effects from it but have been trying to
> locate
> > a fix for it in case. My older virus scanning program thought this
> file
> > was fine.
> > Dan
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: emc-at-nist.gov [emc-at-nist.gov] On Behalf Of Ron
> Wickersham
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 10:16 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list
> > Subject: Re: Virus alert
> > 
> > 
> > yes the message was intended as a virus.
> > 
> > but the mailing list software at nist removed the attachment
> > automatically
> > so the message is safe.
> > 
> > -ron wickersham
> > 
> > On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Rubio, Angel wrote:
> > 
> > > I think that the last message is a virus. I have not opened but I
> > think it
> > > is.
> > > 
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