Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 10:29:26 07/29/98
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I'm not sure if our facts are straight or if we're talking about two different viruses here... I heard just recently that Navigator and Explorer run bits of code associated with e-mail file attachments, and somebody managed to put a virus in this format. The easy fix is to delete messages from strangers that have files attached. *Don't* look at the messages, of course. Netscape and MS are working on better fixes (they may have posted something already)... Cheers, Tom On July 29, 1998 at 13:00:16, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 29, 1998 at 10:42:56, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>How do people know so much about this virus and not know how to remove it? >>I mean, you know when it goes off, you know it has some sort of counter, you >>know how it reproduces, etc. >>I think you've been had. > >actually this one is real... but it only affects one platform, and is based >on those that read email via netscape, or internet explorer, or one other >browser. It takes advantage of someone using the "gets()" input function >which has always been a problem due to no way of specifying buffer length. > >Apparently an email, with a *very long* subject line, can cause problems in a >netscape reader. If you run unix, don't sweat it. If you run NT, don't sweat >it. If you run win95, you should visit netscape and get their fix for this. In >unix such a thing might clobber your user files for a user that reads mail like >this, *if* the virus was written for unix. But it appears to be a windows only >one, so everything else is safe. NT has file security so again it might zap a >user's files, but no one elses and no system files... > > > > >> >>Cheers, >>Tom >> >>On July 29, 1998 at 10:15:19, Fernando Villegas wrote: >> >>>Hi all: >>>I just has been warned, one minute ago, that a virus created in Argentina was >>>introduced in the email server of the three most important internet servers of >>>Chile and this one has been dispersed each time one of us has used the email >>>service. The virus will launch 31 julio and it is murderous. It destroy >>>everything. The warning was given by a known argentinian gropup of reasearch and >>>has been taken seriously here. Until now no remedy is known, except to avoid use >>>the computer that date. Changing the date in the computer is not enough; the >>>virtus has its own time counter. So, any guy here that has received an email >>>from me in the last week or so, -you, Steven, for certain, Bruce Moreland, Don >>>dailey, Moritz, etc- please take a look at this warning. I know sometimes theses >>>are fake warning, but this seems to be the real thing. Normal antivuiruis >>>programs does not detect less destroy it. Anything new I know about this I will >>>commmunicate before of after that date. I will not take risk. >>>Fernando
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