Hello All,
Off topic, but well worth everyone's time to read. It is imperative that
everyone have some type of anti-virus software to avoid this. The
Badtrans.B virus DOES NOT REQUIRE the email receiver to open the attachment
for it to execute. It uses a known vulnerability in Internet Explorer-based
email clients (Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express) to
AUTOMATICALLY EXECUTE the file attachment. This is also known as Automatic
Execution of Embedded MIME type. Many mail programs other than Microsoft
are also vulnerable. My Eudora mail automatically ran the embedded MIME
attachment, but my Norton Anti-virus program caught it.
At 09:28 AM 11/30/01, you wrote:
Subject: Fw: Virus Alert...BadTrans.B
MY COMPUTER WAS INFECTED----IT SEEMS TO HAVE SENT MESSAGES TO ANYONE ON MY
ADDRESS BOOK.....
I think I have it out of my computer now. BUT I thought I would
send this out in case some of you may have got it from me. SORRY, I
guess Norton update was not fast enough. Diana
Subject: Virus Alert...BadTrans.B
If anyone has received an e-mail from me in the last 48 hours, DO NOT OPEN
the attachments or read the e-mail. It does contain a virus! I really
apologize for any inconvenience this has caused to anyone! Any e-mail you
may have received, sent by me, was not sent intentionally. I had no idea
I had a virus until my e-mail started going crazy. I did contract this
from just reading an e-mail. It seems to be running rampid to subscribers
of various Rootsweb lists. If anyone has opened an attachment from me or
read an e-mail from me & feels they have contracted this, please visit
www.symantic.com for instructions to get rid of this virus. It is the
BadTrans.B virus. Again, I really apologize. I am virus free now, (at
least I pray I am) but I feel as though I've had the plague. Wayne worked
for sometime to make sure we got rid of it.
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