Watch out for the "navidad.exe" virus!!!!!

[hubbs]

I just had this virus and it is effective to Microsoft Outlook and is pretty darn deadly. I had to reformat. Good thing I saved all my important stuff on my D: partion so I got to keep that but once you get it there will be a little EYE like you see with in your system tray. If you see that DO NOT restart until you have downloaded the fix.

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

How did you get it, email attachment?

 

[squirrel dog]

thanks for the headsup,I heard about it last week,but had forgotten about it.

 

[jadinolf]

Yep, email attachment.

My sister just got it. When will she learn?

Watch out for it guys and gals.

 

[zippy]

That sucks, thanks for the warning.

Does the body of the email have, "Feliz navidad, SUCKAH! I'm a 31337 h4x0r r1pp1n up j00 c0mp3w74r!"



hehe...sorry, I know I shouldn't joke.

 

[snow patrol]

I've got a couple of exe files from unknown sources in the mail in the last couple of days.

The best thing to do is delete them. Never open/run them - you're asking for trouble.

 

[hubbs]

My mom was the one who wasn't thinking. And this is like a worm. A person can carry the virus and not know but still keep sending it to other people. It sucks but like I said i had everything on the D: drive so it wasn't that bad....

 

[Paul]

I thought something was up when I received an e-mail about an upcoming science fair that happened last year...

There was about a million people on the list too...

Lucky me...

 

[Czar]

I have an eye in my tray bar, it has this green things around it, just like ICQ.

 

[VoodooExtreme]

Posted this before but I couldn't resist to post it in this thread

"Hello.
You have just recieved a Norwegian virus.
Since we are not so smart in Norway, this is a MANUAL virus.
Please delete all the files on your hard disk yourself and
send this mail to everyone you know.

Thank you very much for helping me.

Ole Hacker"

 

[abracadabra1]

*sigh* sorry bout your mishap bud
thx for the heads up!

LOL! @ Voodooextreme

 

[blurredvision]

Yeah, I've gotten a couple of calls on this at work from people with this problem. The attachment is most of the time blantly named navidad.exe, and a big sign to watch for other than the icon thing is if you get an error of Winsvrc.exe when trying to do anything at all. That seemed to be the common issue with the calls I had been getting about it.

Your computer could still be recoverable, just go to Symantec to get more info. Right now it's listed as the highest threat.

 

[Batti]

Computer Associates has a free antivirus program that works well. http://antivirus.cai.com/ (why isn't the link button working?)

You can also scan your machine over the Internet at http://housecall.antivirus.com
They also have a free Outlook mailbox scanner, but I think it's for Exchange mailboxes only.

 

[skywhr]

glad i dont use outlook!

 

[Adul]

Even if you don't use outlook you can still get infected because it is a attachment.

GOD I hope my mom doesnt open it.