Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 00:18:25 07/31/01
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On July 31, 2001 at 02:43:02, Eelco de Groot wrote:
>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?
Yes, I think we missed it. When did Bruce post about this?
We have discovered about the new rules just last week.
> 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!
You've got it! :)
Christophe
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