Good day all. The following is some information on the latest viruses that
are making the rounds. Please ensure that you have a good Anti-Virus
program on your computer.
Palyh and SOBIG a/b/c variants which is the latest worm and
received in the support(a)microsoft.com email which people are still
opening. This worm fortunately does not have
a dangerous payload - it basically creates 3 files and 2 reg entries;
the JS/Seeker trojan which basically changes the start page
of the Internet Browser and the JS/NoClose trojan which just transparently
keeps a or some process running in the background that are harmless
(browser). Both are obtained by a user visiting a web page with the java
script coding for the trojan on it.
the W97M/Chack this virus is a MS Word 97 macro virus and
affects the global templates and others within the MS Word 97 software.
the W95/CIH.1003a, which is a particularly nasty virus but
fortunately, although it may infect in NT/2000K files, it will not
activate (Win 98 and down) on our systems. This virus will not only "turf"
the hard
drive and then as a secondary effect actually attempt to cause permanent
damage to the computer by attacking the flash bios and trying to destroy
files there.
For those that may not know, the BIOS is the part of your computer that
initializes and manages the relationships and data flow between
the system devices including the hard drive, serial and parallel ports,
and the keyboard) and tries to corrupt the data stored there.
VIRUS ALERT************************
The W32/BugBear has raised it's ugly head again. Please refer to this
link
http://www.symantec.ca/avcenter/venc/data/w32.bugbear.b@mm.html and
ensure that you educate your users wrt to infection methods and key words
to look for.