Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 23:43:02 07/30/01
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On July 30, 2001 at 22:49:33, Terry McCracken wrote: >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! Thanks guys, I didn't open the virus but I might have, as I didn't discover the .pif extension right away. On a very different subject, sorry that Rebel Tiger and Gandalf aren't coming to Maastricht because of the sudden change of rules and I think inadequate information about it. Bruce protested about the sudden rule-change in this forum but I suppose both Ed and Christophe missed it? I don't blame them for not coming with no multi-processor versions ready. If they were still working hard on new single-processor versions, it isn't lost work, I'm sure of that too! Eelco
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