Re: FN-FORUM worm virus, clever / stupid little bugger

date posted 25th July 2001 16:13

I received such an email yesterday. I queried the identity of the
sender before opening the attachment. When this post was returned as
"not deliverable", I trashed the attachment.

I'm presuming (hoping?) that the virus is in the attachment and not
in the email itself? Am I safe?

peter


>Yes I just got this off another list...
>
>...that's the SirCam virus that's going around now, it grabs a random file
>on the infected user's computer and emails it to any email address it can
>find, it even looks thru the browser caches for webpages with email
>addresses
>on them so you could get the virus sent to you by a complete stranger,
>someone
>who had visited your site but never contacted you before.
>
>And generally any file with two extensions, file.TXT.LNK or any variation of
>that, is always suspect, it usually means it's got a virus in it. The
>SirCam
>virus uses a variety of extensions.
>
>The "file for your advice" is a tag line that the virus inserts in the
>message, it has other variations of that, too and sometimes it replies to
>emails in the infected user's inbox, so you'll get a message that has quoted
>text from an email plus this "file for your advice" or "please to look at
>this"
>and that attachment. Usually the tag line is poorly worded, not very good
>English grammar so that's another clue.
>
>hth
>Em
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>www.bw3.co.uk
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>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Henry Hughes" [EMAIL REMOVED]
>To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 3:12 PM
>Subject: FN-FORUM worm virus, clever / stupid little bugger
>
>
>This sircam virus, I'm getting it quite a bit (over 70 since monday) thru 1
>email account only; an easynet hosted account.
>
>I don't know any of the addresses / people it is coming from.
>
>No one else on the same domain email account is getting ANY of the
>viruses...
>
>Anyone know much about this virus, and in particular why its taken a shine
>to me?
>
>Its a bit like being stalked....
>
>H
>who has never actually been stalked due to lack of fame and fortune.
>
>
>
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