RE: Please Read This Announcement Everyone

by Blue Tapp <blue(at)bluesarthouse.com>

 Date:  Tue, 18 Sep 2001 02:44:37 -0500
 To:  HWG Techniques <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
 References:  holiday
  todo: View Thread, Original
The correct address is: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.nimda.a(at)mm.html
(you left off the "tml" which might throw a few of us off the track)
:-)





>Read this
>http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.nimda.a(at)mm.h
>
>
>
>Sounds like a hoax to me.  Highlighting the subject is causing it to
>load?  Seems doubtful.  Where did you hear about this from?
>
>
>Hello everyone
>
>I know it is not good practice to send messages about viruses but there
>is a nasty one going around.  It has no attachment and it will run just
>by highlighting the subject.  Any emails you receive that have the
>subject "sample ads sample ads sample ads sample ads sample ads sample
>ads sample ads " is a vicious virus of some kind.  I believe it is
>grabbing IP addresses (probably from domains in your mailbox) and then
>launching heavy denial of service attacks on those web sites.  I habeen
>in contact with 3 ISPs this morning who are experiencing difficulties.
>
>Again this is not a hoax and I am only trying to spare some grief.
>
>Regards,
>
>Rob Taylor
>TConsult, Inc.
>www.tconsult.com
>Bullet Proof Member Services Sites
>716-367-2483
>rob(at)tconsult.com





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