Re: Happy New Year Virus

From: Martin (martin_nospam_at_btinternet.com)
Date: 01/11/05 

Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:35:09 +0000 (UTC)

Jay Calvert wrote:
> Sophos, a leading antivirus firm is reporting of a new mass mailing
> virus that is currently making the rounds. The virus, tagged
> W32/Wurmark-D is cirulated via email and contains the virus attached as
> a file.
>
> The difference with this virus is that once the attachment is executed,
> an image is displayed spelling out the words 'HAPPY NEW YEAR' in naked
> bodies. But, while the user is viewing the image, their antivirus
> software is trying to be disabled and the virus is scanning the system
> for further email addresses to send itself to.
>
>
> More information can be found at http://habaneronetworks.com
>
> --
> Jay

well excuse me. I'm not going to look at that link. If you are quoting
Sophos (to be said my favourite AV s/w) as having the infomation I would
expect to see a web address such as

www.sophos.com/somelink/someotherlink

then again I might use a unix box to look at the link :)

Maybe you meant this one?

http://sophos.com/virusinfo/articles/wurmarkd.html

I'm disappointed that you are posting to an alleged security group and
do something like you did with a link to an unknown site posted by an
unknown source.

Oh, it's not new either :) but then the main posting seemed to originate
from microsoft.public.security (my anticipation is running wild with
mircosoft and security in the same address) .virus

hohum

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