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| DATE | 2002-06-15 |
| FROM | Ruben I Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] wwwacs: unnerviing new virus trick with OE preview pane/Word [biteme@spamcop.net]
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On 2002.06.15 22:16 Tom Simpson wrote:
Yeah, Klez finally sent me back to Eudora from Outlook Express. I never
was infected with it, but my mail provider has a virus scanner on it. The
annoying thing is that it would remove the main part of the virus, but the
code that caused Outlook/Outlook Express to automatically launch files
would remain, so it would try to launch a window (I had everything set to
prompt or disabled, so I'd get a message asking me if I wanted to open a
file whenever I previewed one of those half-virus messages).
That's one of the two reasons that Klez is here to stay, probably for
years. It auto-executes even if Outlook or OE are set to not allow that
sort of thing, and it obfuscates the sender, by randomly picking return
addresses from the victim's computer. So people won't be notified that
they're infected like with Melissa, and victim's don't even have to open
the infected attachment to be hit with the virus, merely previewing the
message is enough for infection.
So, I went back to Eudora. I've had problems with McAfee in the past never
catching viruses. I was on Norton 2002 for a while, but lately it was
really slowing down and having problems scanning incoming mail. I saw a
lot of recommendations for AVG anitvirus on Slashdot, and since it's free
and updated constantly I thought I'd give it a try. Of course I haven't
had a virus message come in yet for me to see what happens, but scanning is
much faster than Norton 2002 was. http://www.grisoft.com/html/us_downl.htm
At 08:06 PM 6/15/2002 Dayle Henshel wrote:
>Has anyone experienced this new virus trick:
>
>I just received two emails with attachments, innocuous subject lines,
>unknown but normal-looking senders names. I figured the worst it could be
>was a virus that my system would catch before damage was done (never yet
>failed). I clicked on one and instead of the system displaying a message in
>the preview pane, Word popped open, uninvited, and displayed a document. The
>preview pane was blank. The same thing happened with the next one. Both
>messages came from the same person (or IP address) in Japan.
Tom Simpson
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