AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs Virus/worm

[Frenchie]

For those that dont know, keep an eye out for this recently discovered worm.

Check out Symantec's write up.

I already received one last night, saw the .vbs extension, researched it, deleted it and warned the person. And my law firm was intentionally sent the virus by a disgruntled adversary. Needless to say the FBI and State Police are stopping by our office today to collect the evidence to press charges.

Just wanted to give those that hadnt heard a heads up!

 

[yakko]

You mean .jpg.vbs isn't some new pic format?

 

[guyver01]

Only affects Outlook variants...

thank god for Netscape and Groupwise immune to MS-targeted attacks

 

[SmiZ]

We got this at my work on Monday. Of course there was a couple people here who opened it and I spent the rest of the day deleting it and the registry entries from all the computers here. My boss was swearing his head off watching 100 email replies come back with "what the hell are you trying to pull" type subject lines.

 

[Frenchie]

guyver01:

I know what you mean. I'm glad Juno has its own non-MS interface!

 

[teckmaster]

If you ask me, the people like Symantec and Mcafee should rewrite what a virus is. I wouldn't consider this whole Anna .jpg.vbs thing a virus. All it does is send itself to everyone in your address book and like next January 21st or something like that, take you to a website. I think of a computer virus as something detsructive.

 

[Frenchie]

Technicially it is considered an e-mail worm, not a virus. "Virus" has become somewhat of a generic term for any type malicious program/scripting.