Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 00:43:28 07/31/01
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On July 31, 2001 at 03:18:25, Christophe Theron wrote: >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 Someone, I think it was Peter, noticed this and pointed it out to me, and I wrote something about it somewhere. One day it just popped up on the site. I'm going this time, but I'm going to regret it. bruce
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