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Badtrans.B alert
Be advised:
I've been online for more than 5 years, belong to several genealogy lists and have a web page; I've never received the number of suspicious email/attachments as yesterday. Each had a different sender-unknown to me-and subject and most had a slight variation of the attachment. I don't open ANY unsolicited email especially with attachments and immediately deleted the offenders. By evening, when I'd receided at least six (6) of them, I went looking for some answers.
Be especially alert you across the pond: it seems to be invading from Britain
"The attachment is a DOC, MP3, or ZIP file, with a second extension of either SCR or PIF. For example, an attached file might be named Readme.doc.scr. "
"The "B" variant of the W32/[email protected] virus has been attacking home and corporate PCs installed with Microsoft Outlook. It has initially been categorized as a medium risk, but is expected to reach high-risk levels by the end of Monday"
" Badtrans.B behaves in a similar manner to the original, loading a password-stealing Trojan horse that can log keystrokes and reveal password and credit card information to malicious users. However, this version uses a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that automatically opens the e-mail attachments when previewed. Reports from all over the world state that this worm is spreading. Because the worm sends e-mail and automatically executes on some computers, Badtrans.B ranks a 6 on the ZDNet Virus Meter. "
I've been online for more than 5 years, belong to several genealogy lists and have a web page; I've never received the number of suspicious email/attachments as yesterday. Each had a different sender-unknown to me-and subject and most had a slight variation of the attachment. I don't open ANY unsolicited email especially with attachments and immediately deleted the offenders. By evening, when I'd receided at least six (6) of them, I went looking for some answers.
Be especially alert you across the pond: it seems to be invading from Britain
"The attachment is a DOC, MP3, or ZIP file, with a second extension of either SCR or PIF. For example, an attached file might be named Readme.doc.scr. "
"The "B" variant of the W32/[email protected] virus has been attacking home and corporate PCs installed with Microsoft Outlook. It has initially been categorized as a medium risk, but is expected to reach high-risk levels by the end of Monday"
" Badtrans.B behaves in a similar manner to the original, loading a password-stealing Trojan horse that can log keystrokes and reveal password and credit card information to malicious users. However, this version uses a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that automatically opens the e-mail attachments when previewed. Reports from all over the world state that this worm is spreading. Because the worm sends e-mail and automatically executes on some computers, Badtrans.B ranks a 6 on the ZDNet Virus Meter. "
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