my party Virus spreading rapidly

[Nanceel0]

Lukeg mentioned this within another thread, so I thought I'd post the warning here.
Sincerely, Nancee
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A new EMAIL based computer virus was discovered this morning and it is spreading
rapidly. All AV sites rate this new threat as Medium to High risk.

Please DELETE all EMAIL with "My Party" in subject line or Attachment named: www.myparty.yahoo.com

#1 Virus in World (based on real-time sampling) http://www.messagelabs.com/VirusEye/

TECHNICAL LINKS http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99332.htm http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/[email protected] http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virus...WORM_MYPARTY.A


[This message has been edited by Nanceel0 (edited 01-30-2002).]

[lukeg]

nancee, you can call me luke or lukeg, but luteg is umm?.
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I got an email this morning with an attachment called; www.myparty.yahoo.com
it was obviously a command file, the icon proved it, I had last updated my virus defs 4 days ago, I scanned it and no result, I updated my defs and rescanned and this is what it was http://[email protected]
I emailed the sender as to confirm if valid email address and no rebound daemon yet, I pasted the URL www.myparty.yahoo.com into my browser while the com virus was still on my computer and hit enter, a blank ms-dos box appeared and dissapeared, no commands executed.
I ran the virus scan and deleted the virus and made sure everything was fine and it is. As I never executed it.
Now I try the URL again and it is All about this particular virus.
Fun but a tad simple.
Who on earth would open a com file thinking it is a URL?, well its spreading fast so a lot of people are just plain silly.

[bassetman]

Thanks for the heads up!
Just updated NAV!
John


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"Try to be the person your dog thinks you are"

[Nanceel0]

You're welcome John.

Luke - please accept my apologies - (I know this is silly, but I didn't see Luke in your name, and I thought it was a foreign name - spelled it wrong no less). I'll change it.
Sincerely, Nancee

[drbass]

AVG's AntiVirus latest update is up covering MyParty

drbass

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[Spiny]

I think people have been conditioned to believe that
.com = internet
So it must be safe, right? It's only a website...
Quite clever, really.

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