Dear all,
The information which i received from my friends in Software R & D, i wish to share with all of you.
Yahoo Virus - Be Watchful and Wise not to rush to open
The Yahoo server is pumping one virus with different email addresses be careful do not open any attachment you don't know the extension. these mails are in form of pictures which are not displayed plus an attachment. be careful .
I am talking about the individual mails which you will receive in your Inbox .
HOWEVER VIRUS SPOOFS MAIL ADDRESSES OF SENDERS AND IT MAY SPOOF Anybody's ADDRESS INCLUDING THOSE OF FREQUENT CONTRIBUTORS IN GROUPS .SO BEWARE.
IT MAY SEND MAIL USING YOUR ID OR MY ID OR A FRIENDS ID OR A GOUP ID.
W32.Galil.F@mm
Discovered on: February 02, 2004
Last Updated on: February 05, 2004 10:13:52 AM
W32.Galil.F@mm is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine or Microsoft Outlook to spread. It harvests email addresses from the files in the current user's Temporary Internet Files folder, Yahoo Messenger, Microsoft Outlook address book, as well as the files whose extensions are .asf, .avi, .doc, .jpg, .mdb, .mpe, .mpeg, .mpg, .pps, .ram, .rar,or .xls.
The worm may spoof the "From" field. The email message has a randomly selected subject line, which may also be the attachment name. The attachment has a .bhx, .exe, .hqx, mox, .mim, .uu , .uue, or .xxe extension.
It is written in the Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) programming language and is compressed with UPX.
Also Known As: W32/Holar.gen@MM [McAfee], I-Worm.Holar.f [Kaspersky]
Type: Worm
Infection Length: 67,934 bytes
Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 3.x, Windows 98, Windows Me,
Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP
Systems Not Affected: DOS, Linux, Macintosh, OS/2, UNIX
If you receive any mails subject contains following these please do not open.
A Great Video
Fw:
Fw: DSC-00465.jpg
Fw: Funny :)
Fw: Picturs
Fw: Real show
Fwd: image.jpg
Fwd: Photo
give me a kiss
Miss Lebanon 2006
My photos
Part 1 of 6 Video clipe
Photos
Re:
Please be careful and do not open any unknown attachment which may contain virus.
Have a good day !!
amit@urservice
----- Original Message -----
From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao.
To: D.B.Eswara Reddy ; iatlis@yahoogroups.com ; ila delhi ; nmlis@yahoogroups.com ; iaslic kolkata
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: [nmlis] BEWARE
dear friends
there are many mails being sent on my name from my mail ID. these messages are not sent by me.as it appears that these mails consist the virus, please be careful.
can some one help me to stop this type of mails originating from some other mischievous people.
thanks
laxman rao
"D.B.Eswara Reddy"
wrote: This is the reason why we have been craving for moderation. Thanks, Eswara Reddy --- "Thapar, Amit" < mailto:amitt@niper.ac.in amitt@niper.ac.in
wrote:
Hi, If you have received any mail from any member or your any Friend consisting of Three Snaps/Photo (Unviewable) and there is an attachment of Zipped file Don't open that e-mail as that is a very dangerous Virus and will harm your Windows Registry and Antivirus so your antivirus will not work any more.
This Virus will take all private information (Like Passwords) and other stuff like that and then people will receive e-mails with the same virus from your ID and you might be in some trouble.
Be Safe and don't open that e-mail
This e-mail will Approximately of 181 to 183 KB
Will consist Three Photos which your browser will show that it remained unable to open.
There will be a WinZip Attachment with file extensions .mim, .hqx, mox, etc. with that e-mail
This e-mail could be from one of your friends but he/she is not the Original sender of the mail. Regards, Amit D.B.Eswara Reddy,PhD Assistant Professor Texas A & M University College Station,Texas 77843,USA Devaereddy@yahoo.com
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