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Another worm ALERT - requests credit card info
« on: Jan 30^th, 2004, 10:16am »

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I received this alert from McAfee this morning:

Dear Cymbals,

W32/Mimail.s@MM is a Medium Risk mass-mailing worm that
tries to steal credit card information by displaying a fake
Microsoft Windows license expiration message. Stolen credit
numbers are sent to addresses within the domains @mail15.com
and @ziplip.com.

W32/Mimail.s@MM also forwards itself to contacts it steals
from the infected machine.

Caution: Watch out for emails with "here is the file you
asked for" in the subject line or body. They may contain an
attachment with the W32/Mimail.s@MM worm.

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What to look for...

From: An infected email can come from people you know.

Subject: here is the file you asked for

Body: Hi! Here is the file you asked for!

Attachment: example--document.txt.scr
possible file extensions used: .pif, .scr, .exe, .jpg.scr,
.jpg.pif, .jpg.exe, .gif.exe, .gif.pif, .gif.scr

Aliases: W32.Mimail.R@mm
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NOTE: Up-to-date McAfee VirusScan users with dat 4321 are
protected from this threat.

Learn More about W32/Mimail.s@MM:
==> http://us.mcafee.com/root/campaign.asp?cid=9560

Scan for W32/Mimail.s@MM:
==> http://us.mcafee.com/root/campaign.asp?cid=9561

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Re: Another worm ALERT - requests credit card info
« Reply #1 on: Jan 30^th, 2004, 10:22am »

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My computer upstairs and the Laptop have been very busy this week, downloading all the anti-virus stuff flying through cyberspace this week! McAfee is busy, busy, busy!

Pray these people who like to plug up the systems
will find a nice hobby! Grin

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Re: Another worm ALERT - requests credit card info
« Reply #2 on: Jan 30^th, 2004, 10:33am »

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I always pray people like this will grow up and join the real world and see that this is actually damaging to people and stop. However there's always someone waiting to take their place if they do...*sigh*

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Re: Another worm ALERT - requests credit card info
« Reply #3 on: Jan 30^th, 2004, 12:30pm »

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I pray the government will crack down on these losers, and call them criminals, whether their worm/virus is low or high risk. If they knew they would have to spend some time in jail, they might not send out the next one.

I say, they need to forget about putting out alert levels, and start putting out more arrest warrants.

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Re: Another worm ALERT - requests credit card info
« Reply #4 on: Jan 30^th, 2004, 1:36pm »

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and we Macintosh folks sit back and watch the show, beause we KNOW our good old Macs' are unaffected by virus and worms. But here is the report on how it can impact Macintosh computers.

MyDoom PC 'virus' rebounds on Mac users
[MacUser]

The first big worm attack of 2004 is spreading fast throughout the world today. The MyDoom worm, which is a variant of the Mimail virus, spreads via email or to any available shared directories used by Kazaa.

Of course, the worm can only affect Windows machines, but because of the way it behaves Mac users may soon find their inboxes filling with emails returned as undeliverable from unrecognised addresses.

The worm harvests email addresses from a PC user's hard disk and then generatees randomly-chosen addresses for both the 'to' and 'from' fields. This means that the 'from' address is spoofed and does not tell the next victim where the mail came from. If - as is almost certain - a Windows user has your email address in their address book then you could be affected.

According to security firm Sophos, the backdoor access has been designed to launch a denial of service (DoS) attack against SCO, a company that has made itself hugely unpopular in the Linux community by claiming it owns the rights to parts of the Linux code.

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