RE: Suspect 'advisory' from someone claiming to be from Microsoft (was Fwd: Internet Security Update)
From: Alex Arndt (aarndt@rogers.com)Date: 03/11/02
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From: "Alex Arndt" <aarndt@rogers.com> To: "Marlon Borba" <mborba1@terra.com.br>, <bugtraq@securityfocus.com> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:41:28 -0500
From: Marlon Borba
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 1:37 PM
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Subject: Suspect 'advisory' from someone claiming to be from Microsoft
(was Fwd: Internet Security Update)
<snip>
Be careful with fake 'advisories' like this, specially if they come
with an '.exe' attached.
Cheers,
Marlon.
<snip forwarded mail>
Indeed folks should be careful - this would be the result of the
mass-mail vector propagated by W32/Gibe@MM-infected systems.
This virus (which incidentally drops a Trojan backdoor when it is
activated) was identified by the various AV vendors last week.
NAI - http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99377.htm
Symantec - http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.gibe@mm.html
Sophos - http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32gibea.html
F-Secure - http://www.europe.f-secure.com/v-descs/gibe.shtml
Others -
http://www.google.ca/search?q=W32%2FGibe@MM&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
Alex Arndt, GCIA
"Within all order is the potential for chaos..."
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