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D'Ann, I had someone infect our computer a couple weeks ago with something like
this. It
said Happy 99 and when you opened it, it had fireworks shooting off and that is when it
infected our computer and it attaches itself to everything you send out and renames itself
to
the file you are sending. It was really a big mess and almost ruined everything in our
computer. Just thought you might want to be aware of this also. We couldn't even use
our
computer for a few days while it was being fixed, for some reason our virus checker
didn't
catch it, so we changed that again for safety reasons. So if you get anything like this,
just delete it and don't open it. Kathe Chamblee
DAStoddard(a)aol.com wrote:
Dear Researchers:
Because of the virus that infected many Chamblee/Chamlee researchers more
than a year or so ago, I thought I'd remind people of the new dangerous
virus "Bubbleboy" which is reviewed on the
www.cbs.com site and has been on
the news.
This virus is pretty awful because you don't have to download anything, i.e.
read attachments, to execute this particular virus. "Bubbleboy" only requires
that the e-mail be previewed on the Inbox screen of Microsoft's Outlook
Express. As soon as the e-mail is highlighted, without so much as a click of
a mouse, it infects the computer.
This does not affect Netscape's programs, and if you have uploaded the patch
for Internet Explorer 5.0 from their site, all will be ok for you as the text
below relates.
It also adds: "Even without Network Associates' software patch, there is an
easy fix. Enabling Microsoft's highest-security e-mail filter will keep the
virus from entering. "
Often we all get those bogus Virus warnings in e-mail, but this is legit.
--D'Ann
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'Bubbleboy' Virus Infects PCs (from
www.cbs.com)
New Strain of Computer Virus
Not Necessary To Open E-Mail To Get It
Software Patch Can Block It
SAN FRANCISCO
Wednesday, November 10,1999 - 08:18 AM ET
CBS
(AP) Computer security experts are warning of a dangerous new e-mail virus,
one able to destroy information even when users don't fully open their
messages.
"Bubbleboy," apparently nicknamed after an episode of the TV show Seinfeld,
is the first known e-mail virus that doesn't even need to be fully opened to
be activated. Just highlighting the e-mail's subject line in Microsoft
Outlook Express activates its hidden code.
It also takes every address in a computer's e-mail program and passes the
virus along.
Researchers at Network Associates, a Santa Clara computer security company,
said "Bubbleboy" could become the framework for the easy delivery of a host
of malicious programs.
"This ushers in the next evolution in viruses. It breaks one of the
long-standing rules that you have to open an e-mail attachment to become
infected," spokesman Sal Viveros said. "That's all changed now."
"Bubbleboy" was e-mailed late Monday to Network Associates and the company
put a free software patch capable of blocking the attack on its Web site the
next day.
The company isn't certain who sent the virus, but researchers believed the
threat is so serious that they notified the FBI, said Vincent Gullotto,
director of the company's virus detection team.
"It could basically disable your PC easily," Gullotto said. "This could be
a
watershed."
The virus sent Monday night was more playful than destructive as it worked
its way through a computer's hard drive, renaming the computer's registered
owner as "Bubbleboy" and making other Seinfeld references.
Such a display can be a warning salvo. Gullotto said more destructive
versions of the virus could soon follow.
"This could be the catalyst," Gullotto said. "While the Melissa virus was
'hell coming to dinner,' we have reassessed that and know that something
bigger, meaner and nastier is on its way."
The Melissa computer virus clogged e-mail systems around the world when it
hit in March, but many computer users were able to avoid trouble by deleting
e-mails without reading them. Like previous e-mail viruses, Melissa wreaked
havoc only after users double-clicked an attachment to the seemingly benign
messages.
"Bubbleboy" only requires that the e-mail be previewed on the Inbox screen of
Microsoft's Outlook Express, a popular e-mail program. As soon as the e-mail
is highlighted, without so much as a click of a mouse, it infects the
computer.
The virus appears as a black screen with the words "The Bubbleboy incident,
pictures and sounds" in white letters.
It affects computers with Windows 98, Windows 2000 and some versions of
Windows 95 that also use Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5.0 and Outlook
Express Web browser and e-mail programs, Gullotto said. It apparently does
not affect Netscape's e-mail programs.
Even without Network Associates' software patch, there is an easy fix.
Enabling Microsoft's highest-security e-mail filter will keep the virus from
entering.
Microsoft spokesman Adam Sohn said Tuesday night that anyone who downloaded
the August upgrade to Internet Explorer 5.0 already is protected from
"Bubbleboy."
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