Active Virus Alerts
Wednesday, February 26, 2003 by IPlural | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
For more information about the W32/Myparty.a@MM please go to:
Mcafee Anti-Virus Information
Symantec Anti-Virus Information
The virus arrives as an email with the subject line "new photos from my party!" It contains an innocuous looking file attachment called www.myparty.yahoo.com. A message in the body of the email reads: "Hello! My party... It was absolutely amazing! I have attached my web page with new photos! If you can please make color prints of my photos. Thanks!"
The so-called "My Party" worm, which is not considered destructive, spreads by infiltrating popular email software Microsoft Windows Address Book and Outlook Express Database.
Mcafee Anti-Virus Information
Symantec Anti-Virus Information
The virus arrives as an email with the subject line "new photos from my party!" It contains an innocuous looking file attachment called www.myparty.yahoo.com. A message in the body of the email reads: "Hello! My party... It was absolutely amazing! I have attached my web page with new photos! If you can please make color prints of my photos. Thanks!"
The so-called "My Party" worm, which is not considered destructive, spreads by infiltrating popular email software Microsoft Windows Address Book and Outlook Express Database.
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IPlural
Reply #2 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 1:49 PM
Reply #2 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 1:49 PM
yeppers 
figure with so many online and such, something like this might come in handy...
specially when or if someones system starts burping all over the place for no apparent reason. Some of these things can actually shut down your virus scanners and such and you don't have to open any attachments for them to do it either, just view an HTML format email and if scripting and such happens to be allowed, bingo..
figure with so many online and such, something like this might come in handy...
specially when or if someones system starts burping all over the place for no apparent reason. Some of these things can actually shut down your virus scanners and such and you don't have to open any attachments for them to do it either, just view an HTML format email and if scripting and such happens to be allowed, bingo..
Blondie66
Reply #3 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 1:52 PM
Reply #3 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 1:52 PM
I only went on a website last week and BANG! the App-Tubmo-B trojan was in my sytem. 
I ended up having to format. 
I ended up having to format. 
JamMeister33
Reply #4 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 1:53 PM
Reply #4 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 1:53 PM
Well, you'd have to be pretty dumn to open something like that....
anyway, my Norton's would intercept it before it even got downloaded to my Inbox...
but thanks anyway, IP+
anyway, my Norton's would intercept it before it even got downloaded to my Inbox...
but thanks anyway, IP+
IPlural
Reply #5 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 1:54 PM
Reply #5 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 1:54 PM
m, Jafo, can the name of a thread be changed?
reading this, maybe it should be deleted and started with Active Internet Virus Alerts or some such if it is ok to run one on the topic?
Yay of Neigh on keeping it active, even with a name switch isn't an issue, if it is seen as redundant then I m for drilling it's hull
what I used is a bit ambigious and if it's not painted in BIG BOLD letters some will freak and wigout....
reading this, maybe it should be deleted and started with Active Internet Virus Alerts or some such if it is ok to run one on the topic?
Yay of Neigh on keeping it active, even with a name switch isn't an issue, if it is seen as redundant then I m for drilling it's hull
what I used is a bit ambigious and if it's not painted in BIG BOLD letters some will freak and wigout....
IPlural
Reply #6 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 1:57 PM
Reply #6 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 1:57 PM
Jam not always....
and that is a fact which both Mcafee and Norton had to admit to...
not always....and that is a fact which both Mcafee and Norton had to admit to...
JamMeister33
Reply #7 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 2:24 PM
Reply #7 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 2:24 PM
Well, all I know is every time someone tried to send me some nasty virus or trojan horse in an email it was intercepted by NAV 2003 before it was even downloaded.
Bangkokboy
Reply #9 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 3:55 PM
Reply #9 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 3:55 PM
Norton detected and marked the variant kaak worm files on my sytem, but was totally incapable of quarantining or deleting them! Lotta good, right? had to use an ancient set of pseudo-unix, that does all its own dirty work and doesn't make system-type calls to DOS or Windows. snuffed Mr. kaak straightaway and didn't have to reformat, but this jolted my faith in NAV a little. >
bakerstreet
Reply #10 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 4:19 PM
Reply #10 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 4:19 PM
lol.
.com (internet suffix) != .com (file extension).
easy to see why so many people fall for it, though.
.com (internet suffix) != .com (file extension).
easy to see why so many people fall for it, though.
The DJ
Reply #11 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 4:38 PM
Reply #11 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 4:38 PM
Lol that sucks Bangkokboy. That reminds me of spycop where it will search your computer for spyware but won't remove it just letting you know it's there 
.
I use plenty other spyware/adware programs so using it is really not necessary.
Good lookin IPlural although I'll never open an email with an attachment unless I know the person is seding it.
.I use plenty other spyware/adware programs so using it is really not necessary.
Good lookin IPlural although I'll never open an email with an attachment unless I know the person is seding it.
Jafo
Reply #12 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 4:51 PM
Reply #12 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 4:51 PM
lPlural...no, can't be changed, only deleted....but there's nothing 'wrong' with the title as it is...
IPlural
Reply #13 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 4:58 PM
Reply #13 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 4:58 PM
But Al Jules, notice it propagates through Address books coming from the sender who would know you and you them
I mean for those who wouldn't put that together, those are the ones I was thinking of when starting the thread. Kind of a way to pass on info and help understanding before they learn the hard way
anyone remember "Stoned" or "Ambulance" ?
how about the one that made just the "\" key go away form use in the char-map of your ketboard
...
if I could have found the one did that one..... lol
or the one where the chars on your screen would start dropping one, and then in a bit another and then a few and then all pile up on the lower "floor" of your screen
anyway...
I mean for those who wouldn't put that together, those are the ones I was thinking of when starting the thread. Kind of a way to pass on info and help understanding before they learn the hard way
anyone remember "Stoned" or "Ambulance" ?
how about the one that made just the "\" key go away form use in the char-map of your ketboard
...if I could have found the one did that one..... lol
or the one where the chars on your screen would start dropping one, and then in a bit another and then a few and then all pile up on the lower "floor" of your screen
anyway...
Xaltec
Reply #14 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 5:07 PM
Reply #14 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 5:07 PM
Every week or so i do an online scan aswell as a NAV scan. last week i scanned at trend.
It picked up 26 so called "viruses" in just 'My Documents'
"Holy S**T!" where my first words, until i saw that EVERY one of them was an exe and every exe was a real program that i had saved to there!
Apparantly they were all the Hananter virus? anyone heard of that one?
Did a full system scan with NAV after getting an update, NOTHING not one teensy weensy lil bug to be found... Hmmmmm!
I always trusted trend but now my opinion is swaying!
"Don't have nightmares!"
It picked up 26 so called "viruses" in just 'My Documents'
"Holy S**T!" where my first words, until i saw that EVERY one of them was an exe and every exe was a real program that i had saved to there!
Apparantly they were all the Hananter virus? anyone heard of that one?
Did a full system scan with NAV after getting an update, NOTHING not one teensy weensy lil bug to be found... Hmmmmm!
I always trusted trend but now my opinion is swaying!
"Don't have nightmares!"
JamMeister33
Reply #16 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:08 PM
Reply #16 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:08 PM
Don't care what anyone says about NAV...
It works for me and has saved me many times over, so if you don't like it I really couldn't care less....
It works for me and has saved me many times over, so if you don't like it I really couldn't care less....
kthxbye
Reply #17 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:14 PM
Reply #17 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:14 PM
Agreed Jam. I've had nothing but good luck with NAV.
Heck - I've never had a problem with any of the Norton's utilities actually. I love my copy of Systemworks. I'd cry if I couldn't use speeddisk and had to go back to using MS' defrag (which doesn't do /nearly/ as well on an NTFS volume as Norton!)
Heck - I've never had a problem with any of the Norton's utilities actually. I love my copy of Systemworks. I'd cry if I couldn't use speeddisk and had to go back to using MS' defrag (which doesn't do /nearly/ as well on an NTFS volume as Norton!)
White_Moth
Reply #18 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:17 PM
Reply #18 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:17 PM
They all use the same tactic.
I never open an Email if I am not positive in knowing who it came from, and even then I am always suspicious.
I am my own last line of defense, so if I get bombed, it's my fault.
I never open an Email if I am not positive in knowing who it came from, and even then I am always suspicious.
I am my own last line of defense, so if I get bombed, it's my fault.
JamMeister33
Reply #19 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:24 PM
Reply #19 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:24 PM
That's right jake.... very smart of you...
and kthxbye... I'm with you all the way...
and kthxbye... I'm with you all the way...
IPlural
Reply #20 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:28 PM
Reply #20 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:28 PM
am I never said I didn't like Nav, it is actually the main one I put all client on, NIS 2003 Pro.
We run NAV Corporate on all servers and push to clients in some locations.
I've use Peter Norton's products since Norton Utilities fit on a 360k floppy.
Every now and then PC Tools but only when it was do or do without...
It isn't the company or the product specifically, but the whole industry revolving around Network security and virus protection, nothing, no one thing does it all, all of the time except one Firewall that I know of and it is the cheapest one on the market too...
Air Firewall, don't connect...
If you or anyone is totally secure and satisfied, power to you and I hope it never turns around on you, really. But I do not for the life of me understand the contention which started out at the begining of this thread to begin with, honestly.
As a matter of fact, it is even stated to go to Mcafee's and Norton's site for information, which pretty much indicate's the value seen in their products...
anyway...
We run NAV Corporate on all servers and push to clients in some locations.
I've use Peter Norton's products since Norton Utilities fit on a 360k floppy.
Every now and then PC Tools but only when it was do or do without...
It isn't the company or the product specifically, but the whole industry revolving around Network security and virus protection, nothing, no one thing does it all, all of the time except one Firewall that I know of and it is the cheapest one on the market too...
Air Firewall, don't connect...
If you or anyone is totally secure and satisfied, power to you and I hope it never turns around on you, really. But I do not for the life of me understand the contention which started out at the begining of this thread to begin with, honestly.
As a matter of fact, it is even stated to go to Mcafee's and Norton's site for information, which pretty much indicate's the value seen in their products...
anyway...
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Reply #1 Wednesday, February 26, 2003 1:41 PM