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Aragorn

10-09-2010 10:21

New mass mailer worm

Heads up - there is a new mass mailer worm spreading - Visal.b

Details on the MS site here.

We had several emails last night but IT seems to have contained it.

The example I saw was an email saying -

Code:

Subject: Here you have 
             Body: 

Hello:
                          This is The Document I told you about,you can find it Here.

http://www.sharedocuments.com/library/PDF_Document21.025542010.pdf
                          Please check it and reply as soon as possible.
                          Cheers,

Pog66

10-09-2010 11:46

Re: New mass mailer worm

Also hit at work overnight - resulting Spam storm nearly crippled teh email system :-(

Sasha222

10-09-2010 11:48

Re: New mass mailer worm

If you have a virus protecter will it block it?

Aragorn

10-09-2010 11:59

Re: New mass mailer worm

Not sure - the link sends you to a .scr virus file, so if your AV knows the signature of the virus then it probably would block it.
Best response is delete the email and not to click on the link :)

Uncle Peter

10-09-2010 12:00

Re: New mass mailer worm

Quote:

Originally Posted by defirish (Post 35088926)

If you have a virus protecter will it block it?

As an individual you will be ok providing your virus definitions are up to date.

Some companies (as noted above) will potentially suffer from large amounts of traffic on their smtp gateways and email servers unless protection is hosted away from the corporate network, ie: Messagelabs or Postini.

Sasha222

10-09-2010 12:03

Re: New mass mailer worm

I never open emails anyway or attachments that I'm not sure of. I just send them to the junk file.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Uncle Peter (Post 35088935)

What is Messagelabs and Postini or do I need to worry about them on my home laptop?

Aragorn

10-09-2010 12:09

Re: New mass mailer worm

More coverage here on El Reg.

Uncle Peter

10-09-2010 12:10

Re: New mass mailer worm

Quote:

Originally Posted by defirish (Post 35088936)

I never open emails anyway or attachments that I'm not sure of. I just send them to the junk file.

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What is Messagelabs and Postini or do I need to worry about them on my home laptop?

They are companies who provide,amongst other things, virus and spam protection to enterprise/business customers. Spam and viruses are stopped at their borders rather than the businesses they are protecting.

Sasha222

10-09-2010 12:17

Re: New mass mailer worm

Thanks for the explaination. I'm not a tec person so want to make sure that I'm safe and know what to do if anything did happen. Thanks all ;)

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Aragorn (Post 35088941)

More coverage here on El Reg.

Thanks for the link Aragorn ;)

Maggy

10-09-2010 12:28

Re: New mass mailer worm

Or you can get your mail through your browser through Gmail or yahoomail or VM and the spam filters usually weed out potential dangerous mail.;)

Sasha222

10-09-2010 12:32

Re: New mass mailer worm

Im on hotmail does that make a difference

grandmaster

10-09-2010 12:39

Re: New mass mailer worm

The file (virus) may look like a pdf.
just take care when opening attachments.

Sasha222

10-09-2010 12:41

Re: New mass mailer worm

I never open them and my virus checker always gives a warning anyway about them.

Lord Nikon

10-09-2010 16:42

Re: New mass mailer worm

My domain hosted email runs through spamassasin anyway. But yeah, they've gone old school with this and it looks to be a particularly annoying one.

yesman

10-09-2010 23:45

Re: New mass mailer worm

Some info from the Beeb here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11258795

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