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March 22, 2002

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MyLife.B Virus Makes Its Way Around the Net

To Warn or Not to Warn -- that is the question these days as new viruses spring up almost daily.

The latest virus warning for the W32.MyLife.B@mm mass-mailing worm indicated that the virus was making strong headway across the Net. Yet, we held up our warning for fear we might be viewed as a "chicken little" of Tech Advisories. Late this afternoon, however, we could delay no longer as our own inboxes started to receive the virus.

Be on the lookout to the latest mass mailing worm and be sure to update your virus definitions. This worm will spread using Outlook to all recipients in the Outlook Address book. The e-mail message will have the following characteristics:

Subject:
"bill caricature"

Body:
Hiiiii
How are youuuuuuuu?
look to bill caricature it's vvvery verrrry ffffunny :-) :-)
i promise you will love it? ok
buy

========No Viruse Found========
MCAFEE.COM
--------------------------------------------------------
Attachment:
cari.scr

It will copy itself to "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\cari.scr".





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03/06/02 Klez-E Worm and W32.Gibe Virus Warnings
03/01/02 CERT Issues Warning on PHP Scripting Language Flaw
02/27/02 CERT Issues Warning on Internet Explorer and Outlook Flaw
02/22/02 SNMP Patches and Detection Tools Available
02/20/02 Email Address Belonging to Legitimate Security Site Hijacked to Deliver Dangerous Yarner Worm
02/15/02 Mass Mailing Email Worm Compromises Word 2000 Security Settings
02/13/02 SNMP VULNERABILITY
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02/04/02 Microsoft Issues Collection of Security Fixes for Windows 2000
01/31/02 Copycat Virus Unleashed
01/30/02 Netscape Browser Vulnerable to Cookie Theft
01/28/02 "My Party" Mass Mailing Worm
01/18/02 IT Contingency Planning Guide, Information Security Checklist and Solaris Vulnerability
01/15/02 Trojan.StartPage Alters Web Browsers
01/12/02 New Internet Worm Gigger Masquerades as Microsoft Outlook Upgrade
01/08/02 Microsoft Universal Plug and Play Vulnerability
12/20/01 Holiday Themed Computer Virus Unleashed




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