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FREE W32.Nimda.A@mm VIRUS!!!! Check your email

It doesn't really do anything malicious to your computer. It just spreads and uses every known vulnerability in IIS, which are mostly useless. The problem is the amount of traffic that it is creating on the 'net.
 
I love my Network Associates GroupShield Exchange software!

Haven't seen Virus 1 since I installed it over a year ago.
 
The traffic this thing is generating is incredible! It's already on MSNBC...they're even suggesting terrorist links 😛
 
So, you actually get an attachment named "Readme.exe"? Pardon me for my bluntness but you'd have to be an idiot to double click on that!
 


<< Pardon me for my bluntness but you'd have to be an idiot to double click on that! >>

And yet, it still happens...
Never underestimate the power--nor the prevalence--of idiots.
 
The problem is the amount of traffic that it is creating on the 'net.

I'll say. It got into our campus network yesterday, and now 95+% of the hits on my division web server are from other sites in the campus network via this worm. Not more than we can handle yet, but already my webserver log is 4X larger than the entire log from yesterday at 1pm local time. It tries 16 different IIS holes each time (Yeah Apache!)

 
ive been getting this email sent to me on my college email address many times already ... it must have already infected our network also... not stupid enough to open it.. but anyway.. i upgraded to office xp about 2 weeks ago and outlook xp wont even let me open the email.. microsoft did one thing right..
 
Apparently the virus uses some malicious code in OE/Outlook that will launch the attatchment without anyone having to double click on it.
 


<< Never underestimate the power--nor the prevalence--of idiots. >>

....I have always heard that no matter how idiot proof you try to make something, someone will come out with a better idiot.
 
The virus made it's way on to some pc's on the network and I ended up with it just by opening a word document on one of those newly shared drives. Hadn't used email all day! That's what I get for snooping, I guess.
 
No, I don't think that would even work... I made the mistake of helping out someone through an infestation by W32.Magistr(something), and within a week, even though I SPECIFICALLY told him not to open any attachments, guess what? He got infected again (with a different one). This time, it wiped his drive, or at least key portions of it, so he had to reinstall Windows. Of course, he did not have a backup of anything, so he lost all his emails, documents, banking, etc.

His excuse for opening it? "It was from my brother, so I assumed it was okay." Ugh!

Perhaps now, he will remember not to open attachments...
 
i just got this virus and boy does it fill your inetpub/scripts directory with junk eml extension files. I opened one of em up and it seems it was generated from china.
 
Maybe someone should make a worm that goes after stupid people that open attachments *FROM ANYONE* that when opened send an electrical signal to the mouse and shocks the person and then displays this message:

"DON'T OPEN UP ATTACHMENTS YOU IDIOT!"

This sort of thing works on rats.........why not on stupid people?

But I suppose it is fun to email a dumb friend and tell them there is a cool game attached called netbus.exe

hahaha
 
hey aperry, WOAH, I helped MY friend out with the W32.Magistr(something) virus too. Hahahaha, all I did was install Norton AntiVirus.....but, they haven't called me back, so I don't think they have gotten another. It's funny how some people just don't realize that even after everyone tells them to not open conspicuos attachments, they still do!

Ahh, stupidity at work...
 


<< Apparently the virus uses some malicious code in OE/Outlook that will launch the attatchment without anyone having to double click on it. >>



Ya, it tricks OE to thinking it's a WAV file so it runs it. Who would want music in emails to play automatically anyway? IE6 and/or the patch from Microsoft fixes it though.
 
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