RE: Sircam

From: Stan Lee (OBU-MY) (Stan_Lee@trend.com.tw)
Date: 07/27/01 

Message-ID: <AFCEDE1FB5F9D311923900508BDE93A2975B60@tw-exmail2.trend.com.tw>
From: "Stan Lee (OBU-MY)" <Stan_Lee@trend.com.tw>
To: Dom De Vitto <dom@devitto.com>
Subject: RE: Sircam
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 12:08:59 +0800

Hi all,

do you guys think that scanning and cleaning is what you need you do for
this virus??? What if i suggest to STOP the coming of this virus at all????

You should use a solution that sit on the internet gateway, right after the
firewall, to STOP all troj_sircam.A at the gateway..

for more detail please visit Trend Micro's site at : www.antivirus.com

Stan

-----Original Message-----
From: Dom De Vitto [mailto:dom@devitto.com]
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 2:44 AM
Cc: vuln-dev@securityfocus.com; SECURITY-BASICS@securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: Sircam

Can I suggest that everyone vaguely interested go to the Symantec site
and look up the details - it's a complex thing SirCam, and does a lot
in a lot of ways.

e.g. Scans the Temporary Internet Files for any files containing email
addresses....

Dom
-----Original Message-----
From: Kimberly Anne McKinnis [mailto:elf@nauticom.net]
Sent: 25 July 2001 21:15
To: Tom Geldner
Cc: 'Johnson, Greg'; vuln-dev@securityfocus.com;
SECURITY-BASICS@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re:Sircam

From what I've read, it looks for any email addresses on the system, not
just in address books. So if webmaster@ was posted on a webpage somewhere,
that may be the cause.

This subject line is causing some peoples mail servers to reject the mail.
Somehow I doubt the real virus is actually going to send with that subject.

Tom Geldner wrote:

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Johnson, Greg [mailto:JohnsonG@missouri.edu]
>
> >Don't let the e-mail tip-off fool you.
> >
> >In our University environment we find this and related worms
> >spread primarily via unprotected writeable Windows shares. It
> >also gets in when a user without up-to-date anti-virus
> >software accesses an e-mail server other than our own which
> >has an anti-virus filter. Bim-ba-boom!
>
> Some of our corporate accounts have been pounded on by a particular user
> on verizon.net. None of those e-mail addresses are from someone's
> address book. They are all things like info@, webmaster@, postmaster@
> etc. so in our case, someone seems to be trying to propogate it
> deliberately.
>
> Tom 

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kimmie mckinnis
http://www.starjewel.org
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