VIRUS WARNING... MORE

From: J. Forster (jfor@quik.com)
Date: Mon May 19 2003 - 19:34:51 PDT


Beware of messages from:

support@microsoft.com

It's a virus. It has shown up on a list I moderate and from individuals.

Here is the link to Symantec:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.b@mm.html

>From that site:

The email message has the following characteristics:

                     From: support@microsoft.com

                     Subject: The subject line will be one of the following:

                          Your details
                          Approved (Ref: 38446-263)
                          Re: Approved (Ref: 3394-65467)
                          Your password
                          Re: My details
                          Screensaver
                          Cool screensaver
                          Re: Movie
                          Re: My application

                     Message Body: All information is in the attached file.

                     Attachment: The attachment name will be one of the
following:

                          your_details.pif
                          ref-394755.pif
                          approved.pif
                          password.pif
                          doc_details.pif
                          screen_temp.pif
                          screen_doc.pif
                          movie28.pif
                          application.pif

DON'T OPEN THEM. DELETE THE FILE.

-John



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