Hello All; here is some late news about the virus, from my Acuff
mailing list, Billie McNamara is very good at this. Please read
carefully and take precaution, if you have internet explorer, get the
fix from microsoft website listed below in message I'm forwarding. I
just did , and ran it and set it up from the Microsoft website. which is
the 2nd website listed below.
Always, Imo
-----Original Message-----
From: Billie R. McNamara <mcnamara(a)usit.net>
To: Recipient list suppressed <Recipient list suppressed>
Date: Friday, May 12, 2000 10:43 AM
Subject: CUZZINS: Fwd: Alert: fix for email worms that spread without
opening attachments!
Hope this doesn't upset anybody -- but it's important that
this get
spread
around. I've already received one Kak virus-infected e-mail
without an
attachment -- Norton caught it -- and heard from several others who've
received them through genealogy lists.
One correspondent wrote to me this morning about the Kak worm:
this is a mean one-even though nortons catches it -it will mess up your
e-mail.
my husband got it on one of his radio lists. it was very hard to get
rid
of-it built a firewall and would not let nortons scan
it took forever to get rid of - the second time- my husband 's mail
went in
my in box - boy was i glad i had backed up- remind everyone to back
up-
you
can lose all your records to this thing.
Please read the message below...and take necessary steps to protect
your
data. Backing up is still the primary method, followed by wearing
that
antivirus "glove."
>This was posted today to one of the professional forums that
>I participate in. See below...
>
>-rich
>
>============================================================
>Subject: SANS Institue: Email viruses are now spreading WITHOUT
> THE USER OPENING ANY ATTACHMENT.
>
>
>http://www.sans.org/newlook/alerts/virus.htm
>
>Here two three excerpts that I hope aren't too long for
>copyright laws:
>
>
>
>"You don't even have to use IE; just have it installed with
>the default security settings."
>
>"The problem is caused by a programming bug in an Internet
>Explorer ActiveX control called scriptlet.typelib."
>
>"The hole can be closed in five minutes or less using tools
>available at Microsoft's security site:
>
>
http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/ms99-032.asp
>
>The correction script may be run directly from:
>
>
http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/iebuild/scriptlet/en/scriptlet.htm
>
>
>
>
>By Dvd Avins (Email: davins(a)gemini-systems.com)
>on Thu, May 11, 2000 at 08:47 AM.