Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 19:49:33 07/30/01
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On July 30, 2001 at 19:56:01, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On July 30, 2001 at 19:00:11, Eelco de Groot wrote: > >> >>Hello, >> >>This is off-topic but just a warning about e-mails from unknown sources with >>attachments and, generallly, just a text like "Hi! How are you? I send you this >>file in order to have your advice. See you later. Thanks" The attachment is a >>.doc.pif and the .pif only shows up in the source if you scroll it totally to >>the right. In one of twenty cases the virus, the "SarCam"-virus attempts to >>delete all your files on the sixteenth of october. I even received two spanish >>versions of this thing. I am possibly to late to warn anybody as this was five >>days ago but still, maybe this does ring a bell for somebody who opened it and >>saw nothing happening, in which case you probably better look on the web for a >>way to get rid of the thing. >> >>Five days before that on another computer someone I know got something similar, >>but this time it were .exe files and just random or no text. No idea yet what >>that one was, probably older viruses. Maybe it has something to do with delayed >>updates of virusscanners because people are on holidays? >> >>No hoax, this. Caveat emailopener I would say in my best pig-latin. >> >>See you guys, and ladies! >> >>Eelco > > >http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.removal.tool.html > >Pichard. Speaking of e-mail, check yours Jorge! However nothing so exciting as a virus worm or trogan!;) Terry P.S. I'll keep an eye open for this virus....it's widespead, Risk 4 by symantec. Altough of topic...IMHO Symantec Viris Scanner 2001 is the best and so are there help tools. I use Norton's 2001 and I think they do a great job , and recommend Norton's Ant-Virus protection as well as Norton's System Works to everyone!
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