Obake
03-15-2001, 02:13
I know that I haven't been active in the forum for quite some time for personal reasons. I felt it imperative to post this immediately though.
(Moderators, I chose this forum due to the volume of traffic as opposed to the Tech support forum. I hope that you'll agree with me and leave this here!)
I have just received notification of a new and potentially serious virus from the US Army Computer Emergency Response Team. This virus is called W32.Magistr.24876@
It is a network aware worm that is particularly brutal. As many of you may not be total tech heads I'll stay superficial, but I can't stress enough the importance of updating your virus protection immediately.
W32.Magistr will overwrite your hard drive, flash your BIOS and erase your CMOS. It will also mail itself to everyone in your Outlook (and Express) address book and also in your "Sent" folder. This virus is very difficult to detect because is uses a program (anti-heuristics for us geeks) that allows it to avoid detection by anti-virus software. It also has the ability to generate a variable subject line which makes it harder to detect (polymorphic) and can carry up to 6 different payloads. The US Army (whom many of you know I work for) has blocked all non-mission critical E-mail attachments until further notice. It has also been suggested that all downloads of .exe files and FTP files transfers be stopped.
For those of you who want more specific information on what this Worm does, here is a link to the virus description from the Symantec site: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.magistr.html
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(Moderators, I chose this forum due to the volume of traffic as opposed to the Tech support forum. I hope that you'll agree with me and leave this here!)
I have just received notification of a new and potentially serious virus from the US Army Computer Emergency Response Team. This virus is called W32.Magistr.24876@
It is a network aware worm that is particularly brutal. As many of you may not be total tech heads I'll stay superficial, but I can't stress enough the importance of updating your virus protection immediately.
W32.Magistr will overwrite your hard drive, flash your BIOS and erase your CMOS. It will also mail itself to everyone in your Outlook (and Express) address book and also in your "Sent" folder. This virus is very difficult to detect because is uses a program (anti-heuristics for us geeks) that allows it to avoid detection by anti-virus software. It also has the ability to generate a variable subject line which makes it harder to detect (polymorphic) and can carry up to 6 different payloads. The US Army (whom many of you know I work for) has blocked all non-mission critical E-mail attachments until further notice. It has also been suggested that all downloads of .exe files and FTP files transfers be stopped.
For those of you who want more specific information on what this Worm does, here is a link to the virus description from the Symantec site: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.magistr.html
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FearObake http://members.tripod.com/smilecwm/cgi-bin/s/net8/laghost.gif
I am the ghost of your fears.
Got a compliment or concern about a Fearful Ways member? Let us know about it HERE (http://pub24.ezboard.com/bfearfulways)