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Archives => 2003 => Topic started by: kbeartx on February 27, 2003, 10:12:00 PM

Title: Warn your Windoze Friends: there\'s yet another new kid, er,
Post by: kbeartx on February 27, 2003, 10:12:00 PM

A new variant on the Lovgate worm began spreading early Monday, posing as an authentic-looking business e-mail, according to security researchers.

Lovgate.C spreads from an infected machine using the MAPI Windows functions by answering recent mail with an infected reply. The worm comes packaged in mail with the subject: "I'll try to reply as soon as possible. Take a look to the attachment and send me your opinion!"

The worm affects Microsoft Corp. Outlook and Outlook Xpress users on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Me operating systems.

"Lovgate is one of the largest cases we've seen this year, and is still gaining ground."

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,901393,00.asp

 - kbeartx

Title: Warn your Windoze Friends: there\'s yet another new kid, er,
Post by: sandbox on February 28, 2003, 01:18:00 AM

Thanks Kbear, they sure are busy out there.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcen...er/vinfodb.html

Title: Warn your Windoze Friends: there\'s yet another new kid, er,
Post by: weldiger on February 28, 2003, 07:11:00 AM

Windoze  ????
 Friends????

 ?????
 Why?

 Kidding!!!!!!!

here is more
 Learn More about W32/Lovgate@M:

and here
 Scan for W32/Lovgate@M:  

Shalom
wd

Title: Warn your Windoze Friends: there\'s yet another new kid, er,
Post by: neokm on February 28, 2003, 07:55:00 PM

I hear-tell "the mother of all worms" may be about to occur over in Iraq as the result of the "e-device"!  Must be magnetic fields or something that baselines out all data on hard drives. Makes you stop and think what new software must be installed on our field computers to prevent the same from happening to our computers.  It'll no-doubt be a 'military spin-off' (like the internet was) and we'll see it packaged as a "new and improved' anti-virus next year.