Re: Virus Update

[Christian Nielsen]

Hate to followup on my own email..

.vbs files need to be blocked. not .vsd. 

working with visio the past few days :)

and for those who were hit, you need to remove this file

c.Copy(dirsystem&"\LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs")

from your system.

I also see that there are some very nice providers announcing the /24 for
skyinet.net. thanks to them for helping the internet at large.

Christian

On Thu, 4 May 2000, Christian Nielsen wrote:

> 
> 
> Just block .vsd files from coming in. Filter them all at the border (thanks
> msft).
> 
> I guess most of us are running unix based mailers so we dont get to see the
> effects/affects of these great news worthy viruses. 
> 
> can anyone tell me one time they could not do their job cause they counldnt
> read a .vsd file? 
> 
> If you look at the .vsd file, you see it is very easy to re-do, send some
> other string and on its way it goes to destroy mail servers around the
> world. Without blocking all .vsd files at the border, theses DOS attacks will
> flood our emails over the next few weeks.
> 
> just my two cents....
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 4 May 2000, Rodney Joffe wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Symantec is unreachable (of course).
> > 
> > Does anyone have any info on patches/fixes etc?
> > 
> > Also, if you use sendmail, there is a patch available for Sendmail 8.9.x
> > ...  doesn't work with 8.10.x - available in the normal places - which
> > will stop the virus at your gateway..
> > 
> > "Branden R. Williams" wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 4 May 2000, Branden R. Williams wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Should you run it, you will lose any files of the following
> > > > extensions.  They will be renamed to filename.extension.vbs with a fresh
> > > > copy of the replication part.
> > > 
> > > Actually it is a fresh copy of the entire virus.  Sorry for the confusion.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > 
> > > Branden R. Williams <brw@netvitality.net>
> > > Vice President, Systems - NetVitality, Inc.
> > > http://www.netvitality.net/
> > > Internet Commerce Specialists
> > 
> > -- 
> > Rodney Joffe
> > CenterGate Research Group, LLC.
> > http://www.centergate.com
> > "Technology so advanced, even we don't understand it!"(SM)
> > 
> > 
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