VIRUS ALERTS:
This past week or two has seen an increase in both virus and worm activity that affects Microsoft Windows computers. Lately Zoidial, Inc. has seen an increase in bogus emails sent to/from users by some of these viruses.
The main virus going around now would probably be this Sobig.F one, which infects users computers via email and will harvest address books and internet cache's in order to send mail to/from those addresses. So a lot of em ail you may get that has bounced that says is FROM you, is actually from someone else's computer, using your address as the "sender" address. This doesn't necessarily mean you are infected, but if you aren't running new v irus definitions and haven't checked, it's better to be safe than sorry.
Current Email Virus Threats:
W32.Sobig.F@mm
W32.Dumaru@mm
Current Worm Threats (exploiting the RPC/DCOM vulnerability):
W32.Welchia.Worm
W32.Blaster.Worm
Removal Tools for the above:
Symantec Virus Removal Tools
Saturday, August 23, 2003