Delete ANY e-mail that says SARS
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(SARS) is an acronym for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. It's the enigmatic disease that has most of the world scared right now.
http://www.who.int/csr/sars/en/
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/factsheet.htm
It seems a hacker has used everyone's fear about SARS to pass on a computer Worm..... in hopes that the computer victim will open the file to discover what may be believed is important information about this disease. Pathetic!
http://www.who.int/csr/sars/en/
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/factsheet.htm
It seems a hacker has used everyone's fear about SARS to pass on a computer Worm..... in hopes that the computer victim will open the file to discover what may be believed is important information about this disease. Pathetic!
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This is what Norton says about it and it has different names:
W32.Coronex@mm is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine to send itself to all the contacts in the Windows Address Book. The email has various subjects, messages, and attachments. The attachment will have a .exe file extension.
Also Known As: W32/Coronex.worm [McAfee], W32/Coronex-A [Sophos], Win32.Coronex.A [CA],I-Worm.Coronex [KAV]
Type: Worm
Infection Length: 12,288 bytes Systems Affected: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Me
Systems Not Affected: Macintosh, OS/2, UNIX, Linux
For the whole store try this:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.coronex@mm.html
But when you run it it looks like this:
W32.Coronex@mm is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine to send itself to all the contacts in the Windows Address Book. The email has various subjects, messages, and attachments. The attachment will have a .exe file extension.
Also Known As: W32/Coronex.worm [McAfee], W32/Coronex-A [Sophos], Win32.Coronex.A [CA],I-Worm.Coronex [KAV]
Type: Worm
Infection Length: 12,288 bytes Systems Affected: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Me
Systems Not Affected: Macintosh, OS/2, UNIX, Linux
For the whole store try this:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.coronex@mm.html
But when you run it it looks like this:
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