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Subject: Re: Warning to Torstein Hall - your comp is infected!

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 15:33:56 11/26/01

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On November 26, 2001 at 18:26:09, Günther Simon wrote:

>Sorry that I have to post this here because I dont have your mail address
>nor found it somewhere...
>Me and another Chessfriend got an e-mail of you which contented a new
>malicious Trojan called BadTrans.
>As we both deleted this mail to soon we were not able to warn you by
>e-mail, please check your Win/system folder for an "inetd.exe" or for
>a dll called "kdll.dll", even better would be to read this new informations
>here:
>
>http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/lab-26.11.01-000/
>
>
>Btw if you take a look at the German CSS-Forum you will notice that it
>seems that this Trojan spreads in a very high degree in the ComputerChess-
>scene.
>Note this is _no_hoax! It seems that almost all wellknown AntiVirus
>Software companies provide a brandnew update for this worm today.
>


I too received an e-mail from him (3 hours ago) with that worm/Trojan as well.
Norton Anti-Virus 2002 caught it right away, thank goodness.  I sent Torstein an
e-mail alerting him to the problem.



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