"Worm" on the loose! [RE-wrenches]

[Allan Sindelar]

Colin got it from me. It's a recent, fast-acting worm. Don't open it. It
spreads itself randomly, so I couldn't warn you. For more info and a tool to
remove it, go to
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.html
This link courtesy of Michael Welch. Read on for more, from yesterday:

Allan Sindelar, Positive Energy, Inc. wrote at 10:10 AM 07/25/2001 -0600:
  >Michael, should I post this to the wrenches list?
>
>I found out this morning that I have a "worm" virus in my computer, that
replicates by e-mail. You may now have it too. Travis and Ian Woofenden
have. I was able to successfully delete it, using a fix I downloaded from
Symantec. I have attached the fix file to this message, in case you got it
too.

No, please do not post. That worm gets sent to email addresses that it finds
in your browser's cache, not to addresses in the address book for your email
program. So, most of the wrenches will not have gotten it.

By the way, since last Friday I have gotten over 200 of those virus
messages. Yet I remain uninfected because I know not to open potentially
infected attachments. Plus, I have my message size set low enough that they
were left on the server for me to delete without ever having made it to my
attachments folder.

Michael Welch

Allan

----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Higbee, Solutions from the Land <ghigbee at efn.org>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 12:28 PM
Subject: "Worm" on the loose! [RE-wrenches]


> Wrenches,
>
> I received an email from Colin (Positive Energy) with a strange note
asking
> me to look over the attached files. I'd received a similar note a few days
> earlier, and did not open any attachments, as the note seemed suspicious.
> Then I received a warning from a friend detailing this "worm." I imagine
> there's a good chance that most Wrenches received the files via Colin's
> address book, so if you get any emails (with attachments) that say
something
> like:
>
>
> Hi! How are you?
>
> I send you this file in order to have your advice
>
> See you later. Thanks
>
>
> Then may wish to go to the below site to find out what to do. I'm just
> deleting the files without opening the attachments...
>
> Here's the info site:
>
> http://www.europe.datafellows.com/v-descs/sircam.shtml
>
> Computer Virus Information Pages: Sircam</A>).


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