Virus Alert - Anna Virus Spreading Twice as Fast as "Love Bug" Virus

[DealSpreeDotCom]

<< A virus posing as a photo of Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova spread aggressively on Monday, as major security companies rushed to update their antivirus software to detect the fast-spreading e-mail virus. >>



&quot;..., the virus initially poses as an attachment--AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs--included in a message with one of three similar subject lines: 'Here you are ;-),' 'here you have ;o)' and 'here you go ;-).'&quot;

From News.com

 

[fobbman]

No kidding. We got it here pretty quickly and our email has been down ever since. The first guy that opened it is feeling pretty sheepish right now. I think we'll get him a poster of Anna.

What's funnier is that he's a freaking PROGRAMMER! Do NOT open VBS files if you don't know what they are. Even if they promise to be jpgs of hot tennis chicks.

 

[phule]

I know this'll probably get locked, but as I sit here the companys email server is down because of this virus, I have to laugh (at least a little bit).

 

[GarciaFan]

Thanks for the post. I received this e-mail attachment today. Luckily I suspected something afoul and didn't open it.

 

[gabegarwick]

from antivirus.com



<< VBS_KALAMAR.A - VBS_KALAMAR.A is a rapidly spreading Visual Basic Script virus disguised as a photograph of Russian tennis player, Anna Kournikova. The virus spreads via Microsoft Outlook as an attachment called &quot;AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs.&quot; Trend Micro advises all customers to update their pattern file and scan engine. >>



Trigger date for this virus is Jan. 26th

 

[MisterE]

Only one person at my workplace received this, as far as I know. He called me (I'm the PC support guy) before launching the attachment. We use Lotus Notes for email, so the damage will be minimal when/if someone here is dumb enough to launch an unknown attachment (will not grab the address book, at least).

 

[fobbman]

Jan 26th? You mean she's late? Damnit, she told me she was on the pill and off-cycle!:|

 

[rgroves]

Dang, we updated all of our mail servers late last night/early this morning... good thing we did.

 

[AU Tiger]

My workplace is suffering as well. E-mail server is getting hammered.

 

[Shahavchik]

got about 30 of those today at work. :|

 

[rgroves]

A bunch of our vendors got hit with it and the flood from them is hammering our servers.

I know what some of you are going through. We got hit with Love Bug several months ago and I was up for almost 24 hours trying to clean up the mess off 8,000+ mailboxes....Sheesh...

 

[amnesiac]

Maybe this is a message telling companies NOT TO HIRE STUPID PEOPLE.

 

[AngryBean]

Yeah, we got hit with it too. Everyone got a letter from our CEO saying check out this pic of Anna Kournikova. Hes opened vbs viruses before, so everyone knew what was up.

 

[mr_cheesy]

people should just block .vbs at the server. if these people are writing vbs scripts, i'm sure they know what winzip is.
and on a side note, anna kournikova is way hot

 

[Jmman]

These hackers are SMART!! Damn, Anna is soo tempting, this one is going spread like wildfire!! Ha!!! LOL!!!

 

[DealBabe]

im waiting for the dumbarss sales exec to open it...
we have like 10 here at work..

 

[Ranger X]

We got hit with the Anna Kournikova virus today at my work! LOL, I was smart enough to not open it but the file sent was AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs and the title reads Here you have, ;o).

 

[locker22]

ahhhhhhhhhhnnnnnnnaaaaaa..... thanks for the headsup...check McAfee's website for details.

 

[kt]

Why don't you guys save yourself the trouble and disable Windows script hosting on everyone's workstation? Of course, this only apply to those workstation that will never ever use it. If they ever need it, I think they are smart enough to figure out not to open an unknown .vbs file. But for sales/secretaries workstations.. just disable the damn thing and you will never have to clean up their mess again. My .02

-=kt

 

[TheOverlord]

bump this...my school go it today, had to stop class for 15 mins in order for all the teachers to listen to the administrators talk them thru how to fix it and delete the emails over the PA system, funny as hell to sit thru

 

[Eran]

O.K guys, you can laugh, but get this:

It's 2:30 AM here, I'm still at work, fixing all the s##t this Anna made to my company's network... Oh well...

 

[SuperTool]

If I had a dollar for every Microsoft VB exploit out there...