[Fwd: [U-pass-ops] New Virus]
From: George Heuston (geoneve@private)
Date: Mon Sep 24 2001 - 16:17:48 PDT
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You folks may be on top of this already, but it appears to be ugly.
Vote.A
This new mass-mailing worm propagates through Microsoft and sends
itself to addressees in the infected users address book. The worm, written
Visual Basic, will appear as an email message subjected "Fwd: Peace Between
America and Islam" and will provide an attached file called WTC.exe (approx.
55kb in size). If the attached file is executed two infectious programs
will initiate and insert themselves on the Windows/ System folder. If
infected the worm will delete all files in the Windows directory along with
creating a backdoor to allow unauthorized system access.
<http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.vote.a@private>
James R. Wilcox, CISSP
Regional Sales Manager
SecureInfo Corporation
503 244-8827 voice
503 244-3007 fax
www.SecureInfo.com
james.wilcox@private
-----Original Message-----
From: u-pass-ops-admin@private-pass.org
[mailto:u-pass-ops-admin@private-pass.org]On Behalf Of Zot O'Connor
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 5:07 PM
To: U-PASS list; CRIME List
Subject: [U-pass-ops] Gartner and IIS
Interesting take on things.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/24/1814256
Gartner Group is now recommending that IIS be replaced in corporate
environments. This is based on the fact that TCO for IIS is
rising due to the
almost-weekly patches sent out by MS, and even then, it's nearly
impossible to get patched quickly enough. Best part: 'Gartner
remains
concerned that viruses and worms will continue to attack IIS
until Microsoft
has released a completely rewritten, thoroughly and publicly
tested, new
release of IIS,' which they say has an 80% chance of happening
by the end
of next year." Gartner hasn't always said favorable things about
Linux
systems in the workplace, but the businesses that rely on this
type of
analysis to justify purchasing decisions may find this one
interesting.
--
Zot O'Connor
http://www.ZotConsulting.com
http://www.WhiteKnightHackers.com
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