Another virus alert

Haven't had any.... yet.

Been there, done that, had to reformat my hard drive yesterday.

I don't know how I got infected, though. The only attachments I've opened lately were cleared by McAfee.

mcafee wasn't catching badtrans until, IIRC, Sunday or Monday - and it started htiting friday/saturday.

I posted news on this one before theregister, even OE is ass. Any software which ships w/ "features" which degrade security enabled by default is idiotic.

I got it too yesterday around 9PM

I got an email yesterday morning. It supposedlyt came from an online music store I contacted a couple months ago. It didn't have any text, just two attachments (setup.doc.scr and getmsg.com). McAfee cleared them, I so I tried running getmsg.com. Next thing I know, kernel32.exe was infected.

There's always the possibility I got infected through means other than those attachments, but if other WCers have been targetted too I guess it's not likely.

Please. It's not WC being targetted, it's the world.

Yes, you infected yourself when you opened an unrequested attachment from that music company.

It's called badtrans. www.theregister.co.uk has a story or two on it.

Wouldn't have been a problem if you weren't using OE.

What's so far-fetched about this particular community being targeted? I've seen it happen elsewhere. Some people go really, really, REALLY far to annoy boards or sites they see as their rivals.

Firestorm... this one has been mentioned on CNN. It's propogating everywhere.

i've gotten tons of them, but norton has caught them all.

the watchword on all this sort of thing remains pretty simple - don't open attachments if you aren't sure of them. even if it just seems to say *.jpg :]

DavidK: Oops

/me vows to turn on CNN more often, even if Paula Zahn and Aaron Brown make his skin crawl.

Outlook XP refuses to let me open any kind of script or executabe file, even if I wanted to. And it's actually pissing me off. So that Outlook Express ships with "unsecure" features doesn't bother me. I'd rather be in control of my own security.

That's what you get for buying Big Brother's latest privacy probe... I mean OS. Yeah, that's it. OS

Now I'm gonna go watch "1984," "Metropolis," and I think I'll listen to Queen's "The Works" while I'm at it

Is it the virus that it comes with e-mails with subject "Re: " and size 40K, from different senders?

I have gotten tons of this kind of e-mails with attachments, the last days, but I never open them.

yes adni18 that is what it is. but I have also gotten a few that has subjects in them. But in general it has just been an email with the re: in it and an attachment, as for the size I cannot tell, Norton stops is before it is even downloaded. No offense against the McAfee users and company but everyone I know that uses McAfee gets hit a lot and it never detects the virus until after the damage is done. You might want to switch to norton antivirus, and stay away from the norton system works

Thank you MobiusCo

39-42k. pine doesn't stop me from downloading 'em, but could care less, freebsd has no idea what to do w/ .scr's...

I'm sorry but who would even open a scr, com, bat, pif, exe from someone they don't know. I know a lot of people do, and that's how virii prosper, but come on! I don't meen to be disrespectful to those who get caught, but I guess everybody has to learn. :/

well paxx with this one I got it was embedded in the email, and like the one I got that norton eliminated was encoded in the email to open automatically bypassing the outlook xp safety, so if I had not had norton I would of been screwed, even thought I do not open any attachment that is not known, and even the known ones get a second scan

You mean the attachement actuallyopened itself automatically? Man, that's mean. I suggest you turn off the preview pane, and just delete messages from people you don't know (and don't care to know) - except ones who's subject is something like "About your skin" or somethinglike that - before reading the mail. That's what I do. I read too many horror stories of the scripts they can put in an email.

hehehe yes it is nasty, and I have the panel preview off, I have never liked that thing. I do have filtering that auto deletes everything not address to exact emails, but still it happens, I just figured I would warn a few people that count on low level virus apps, or none at all. To take care

Yes, everybody has to learn... After the ordeal all I can say is: I love my Zip drive.