Active virus alert for N.E. Swimming
Virus warnings December 2001
DO NOT OPEN ANY EMAIL ATTACHMENTS FROM cmwebs
As
of November, the following virus is still active:
This virus steals the email address book of infected
computers and sends the attachment to everyone in that address book. The sender & the subject of these email are not always
the same. The only thing that all of the emails have in common is that they all have
the text message:
Hi! How are you?
I send you this file in order to have your advice
See you later. Thanks
Delete the email immediately and
DO NOT OPEN THE
ATTACHMENT.
As of December 5th, this is a new virus
Please be aware there is a worm virus out as of
11:00am today. Norton's
does not currently have a set of virus definitions for this, so
please
keep an eye out for it in you mailbox. If you do receive it,
DELETE IT
IMMEDIATELY and DO NOT OPEN ANY ATTACHMENTS! Doing so will infect
your
machine.
The virus infected e-mail has a subject line of Hi! And
will contain
the following message:
"How are you?
When I saw this screen saver I immediately though about
you"
It will also have an attachment called gone.scr
IF you get this. Delete it!
For more information click the following link:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.goner.a@mm.h
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.goner.a@mm.