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Richard Davey
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Posted: 19th Sep 2003 17:28
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I started receiving various emails today apparently from Microsoft
containing "Last Microsoft Critical Pack" with attached EXEs. I'm
assuming this is a new virus/worm? Couldn't find anything on the
Symantec site about it though in their latest virus section - unless
it's an old one? and their latest updated definitions doesn't detect
it either. Interesting.

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yeah i got that too last night.

it's just people need to realise outlook is rubbish at stopping virses. use a email client that dont include a preview pane.

the email went straight in my trash bin

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Posted: 19th Sep 2003 17:41
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Found some more about it, it came out yesterday apparently and seriously screws with your system:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/32925.html

Not good.. not good at all.

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Posted: 19th Sep 2003 17:43
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Hmm, damn virii, when will people learn...


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Posted: 19th Sep 2003 17:46
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Oy, not another worm...

Looks like my Norton patches are up to date, so if they didnt make a virus definition for it yet, I hope they do soon, I dont want that on my machine.


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Posted: 19th Sep 2003 18:09
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Yes, got around 20 for my home address and more or less the same amount for work - all the e-mail addresses seem to be spoofed - one said it was from Nildram's (for those who dont know, its an ISP) e-mail server...


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Posted: 19th Sep 2003 18:11
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I got a letter saying I was left a ton of cash in someones will, all I had to do was send them my personal info. I ,insted, sent them a nasty responce.


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Posted: 19th Sep 2003 18:26
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arrow thats mass spam.

i'm now using a private email address on my domain and i'm going to buy eudora, since it's a good email client to filter out my 100 a day julk emails.

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Quote: "arrow thats mass spam. "
Umm, duh...


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Posted: 19th Sep 2003 23:37
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also watch out for another email from "the microsoft corporation" that too has a suspious exe file attachment.

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Preston C
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Posted: 19th Sep 2003 23:40
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I dont open any email from microsoft, considering every email I supposedly got from them had a virus on it.


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i see them floating in my junk folder. it gets deleted everytime i close the program

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'use a email client that dont include a preview pane'

It's easy to disable the preview pane.

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Posted: 20th Sep 2003 01:36
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This just in:

W32/Swen.A@mm - A new mass mailing worm spreads in the wild
This worm spreads via e-mails claiming to be from Microsoft and to provide a new security patch

http://www.f-prot.com/news/vir_alert/swen_a.html

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Posted: 20th Sep 2003 01:51
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It looks very authentic to the innocent web user. I know my parents would probably fall for it, along with thousands of others.

3 big giveaways:
It's not from a Microsoft mail server
It's marked up as being a patch for every Windows OS, which would never happen.
Microsoft don't send patches!!

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I've had 30+ e-mails between 6pm and 11:30pm and all from 'Microsoft Support'...


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All I can say is:

Life imprisonment to these little virus/hacker low life bastards. Lock 'em up in a cell with a big guy called sue and throw away the key. String 'em up by their private parts. Force them to drink yak's urine. Force them to listen to elevator music. Force them to watch the Paramount channel. Force them to...

I've said enough

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Posted: 20th Sep 2003 03:21
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Force them to program every one of my insane ideas in Binary!!!

Mwuhahaha!!! My torture way is best!!!


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Posted: 20th Sep 2003 03:27 Edited at: 20th Sep 2003 03:28
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I don't think anybody deserves that much punishment.
I've been getting a virus from some mexican girl (who isn't smart enough to hide her e-mail address, presumeing she really is a girl ) and am planning to send her one of my own. (As a thank-you note )

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Posted: 20th Sep 2003 03:39 Edited at: 20th Sep 2003 03:40
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most of my spam is:

get **** in your area
free access for a month
free systemworks
free ****** (blue pill, you know it)
free perscriptions
secrets of *******
clear those debts!
get a low intrest credit card
get a mortgage!
free money for your business

random asian spam containing
free skylife for life!
access all areas (19+)

the list goes on and on and i get the odd occasional doc,com,exe,pif,eml attachments

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that's true. I get lots more "enhacement" spam than viruses.

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I still get plenty of respectable Nigerian businessmen who only need an investment of $20,000 to reclaim lost billions...

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Quote: "Life imprisonment to these little virus/hacker low life bastards."
Unfortunately the Patriot Act made it so, I fail to see the justice of sending a 15 yr old to prison for life for hacking a web page, when Someone can kill a man and not even get jail time.


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I got rid of a virus this morning that infected my laptop and spread to my pc and my friends pc. It's msblast.exe and was in my windows\system 32 folder. Kept restarting my pc everytime I connected to the internet. Got loads of those microsoft emails yesterday and today too.
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Well it's a surprise i didn't recive any of those e-mails on my Hotmail account as i expected...
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lol sue ... thats amusing
arrow thats really the kicker isn't it, in the UK you shoot someone your charged on like 10different counts - and even then you only get something like 3years.

something i've always wondered is does the UK have parol, i don't think i've ever heard of it there.

and cyberfreak if you have a junkmail blocker on your msn or hotmail account you won't get them - they trash anything pretending to be from microsoft.
ya know personally i think people who shoot people should goto jail, but instead of right away ... someone should shoot them - see how they like it then release them under house arrest so they can know how bad it is to walk around not being able to get around properly.

ya know kinda like let the punishment fit the crime kinda thing.
if they die from being shot - then thats really a risk that is taken.

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somehow my email account is almst spam free
only 2 possble viruses and one spyware

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It seems to have died done now, which is good. NAV did, of course, catch everyone.


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Quote: "lol sue ... thats amusing
arrow thats really the kicker isn't it, in the UK you shoot someone your charged on like 10different counts - and even then you only get something like 3years."


you shoot someone in this country you get life (25 years), but the judges are really soft, so it's like 10 years now and you get released in 6 if you are good in prison.

Quote: "something i've always wondered is does the UK have parol, i don't think i've ever heard of it there."


you get a parol board. the recent case where the parol board was used. was the farmer that shot the kid on his land. since the farmer refused to apollogise, they refused to let him out!

Quote: "and cyberfreak if you have a junkmail blocker on your msn or hotmail account you won't get them - they trash anything pretending to be from microsoft."

you can setup your hotmail account to not receieve attachments. or dont allow messages from people who's not in your address book.

Quote: "ya know personally i think people who shoot people should goto jail, but instead of right away ... someone should shoot them - see how they like it then release them under house arrest so they can know how bad it is to walk around not being able to get around properly."

personally i think, if you shoot someone, you should die a slow painful death. people who use guns are technically wimps who cant fight and want the easy way of hurting someone.

Quote: "ya know kinda like let the punishment fit the crime kinda thing.
if they die from being shot - then thats really a risk that is taken."

i wish shooting at dawn was reintroduced in the uk, so if you get arrested and proved guilty, the person should be shot at dawn the next day.

the uk really has gone soft on crime, the police dont have the power anymore. it's the criminals that get the upper hand.

to get ahead in this country, you need to be crooked. because some of the honest people dont get anywhere in life.

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Quote: "i wish shooting at dawn was reintroduced in the uk, so if you get arrested and proved guilty, the person should be shot at dawn the next day."


Hopefully not. Even one single innocent person that is executed would be a too high price. (Every country with death penalty has countless cases where innocent people were executed (their innocence was proven after they'd died).


Quote: "the uk really has gone soft on crime, the police dont have the power anymore. it's the criminals that get the upper hand."


That's true, like in many other countries. But that won't change with the re-introduction of shooting at dawn.

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ok hanging would be better

you can throw tomatoes at then while they die

edit:

anyway back to the virus/worm

it's been updated to code 3.

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In South Dakota, our senater killed a man when he drove through a stop sign going over 20 mph over the speed limit. There is a great deal of talk if he'll even have to serve time. I think is a sad day when a corrupt bastard like Janklow can literally get away with murder. He's playing every angles he can too; he's busy (who isn't?), he was on the job (lier, it was around 11 PM), he is brain dammaged because of the accident (I think he was before). If he gets off, I'm moving to Canada, at least there I can get free healthcare.


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...I don't think ive ever got spam viruses or bugs...weird

lol

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Very lucky.


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I only got 2 pieces of spam in my life....
I've never gotten any viruses or anything from miscrosoft!!!

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Lag - Ya thats just about it for me as well

Heh, my school teacher got one of those "Just gimme your bank account num and I'll transfer all this money over to you" emails and the whole school was shocked (private, 100 student school) I was like

AHAHAHAH I get those every day whats the big deal?

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I've 50 of these 'Microsoft' ones over the last 3 days - obviously someone is stupid enough to run the program (or doesn't have an antivirus program installed).

I've more or less blocked all combinations of subjects now - the real pains are the ones without.


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