Worm Fixers
Posted By: luv2type on 2007-01-25
In Reply to: Storm malware shapes up as worst 'weather' in years - Administrator
Sometimes you can find fixlets on Microsoft website as long as you have another PC available. Another reason why you should not open attachments and delete messages from people you do not know or that you have not subscribed to. Sounds terrible. Why would someone want to be so malicious? Crazy these days. Thanks for the info admin.
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Beware of new e-mail worm!
I just read an article regarding a new e-mail worm that is showing up. Hopefully, we can all be aware of it before it presents itself to us.
The article was at: http://forum.sitefever.com/viewtopic.php?id=38.
Sounds like some kind of worm, all right
Definitely run that scan. Best to do so from the Symantec site itself. Good luck!
Be careful-------there's a new WORM out there. See link to USA article and
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2006-01-30-email-virus_x.htm?csp=N007
"...fast-spreading e-mail worm is raising alarms because its sole purpose is to obliterate the everyday working documents widely used by consumers, students and businesses.
The Kama Sutra worm — also referred to as Nyxem.E and Grew.A — is unnerving because, unlike other e-mail worms, it appears to be detached from any profit motive.
It is designed to destroy all Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint documents and Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop files on all hard drives connected to an infected PC...
appears in e-mail in-boxes with subject lines such as "hot movie," "A Great Video" or "Crazy illegal Sex!" enticing the recipient to click on an attachment. One variation makes reference to the ancient Sanskrit book on sexual positions.
By clicking on the attachment, the victim launches a program that disables anti-virus protection. The infected PC then begins to send copies of similarly tainted e-mail to every e-mail address on the victim's hard drive...
It implants a program to erase common work files on the third day of the month, hitting even external data-storage devices connected to the infected PC...
More than 500,000 PCs are believed to have been infected since it first appeared on Jan. 16. That's a modest infection rate, but victims face grim consequences. On Friday — Feb. 3 — any infected machines will lose all Microsoft documents and Adobe files.!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The worm is designed to inject file-deletion instructions onto corporate servers. It does so via systems that share data with employees logging on to corporate systems from remote locations. "The worm can spread quite well once it finds its way beyond corporate firewalls,
Victims can tell they've been infected if they clicked on an e-mail attachment and had their keyboard and mouse freeze up, forcing them to reboot
Disinfection requires reinstalling an anti-virus program updated to protect against this worm, then scanning to make sure it has been purged.
"It's about proving the virus community can't be stopped by anti-virus companies," says John Pironti, banking security consultant at Unisys. "
Is tonight the night the Sober worm strikes? sm
Aside from updating virus definitions, is there anything else we can do to secure our computers? Thanks!
Previously unknown worm-like creatures made of
something like silicone. Supposedly the only match to this material has been made to some nanotechnology substance that is being used to destroy bacteria on meats, and soon to be used on cut fruits. Cooking kills them, but who cooks lunch meat? They are using it on cold cuts. The company making the technology won't say what big company is buying, either.
The term Morgellons is not new, but its use for this disease is new. This disease became known in I think 2004. That's pretty darn new.
And I should stress that I have not seen any worms or movement under my skin so far. I just have small nonhealing wounds (that look the same as a stage in Morgellons), and my MD is being evasive.
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