Newest Security Update (fwd)

[Edwards, Greg]

It is the new W32/Swen at MM virus
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100662.htm. 

Greg Edwards

-----Original Message-----
From: David Wolfskill [mailto:david at catwhisker.org]
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 7:19 AM
To: baylisa at baylisa.org; rjwitte at rjwitte.com
Subject: Re: Newest Security Update (fwd)


>Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 03:55:14 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Russ Witte <rjwitte at rjwitte.com>
>To: baylisa at baylisa.org
>Subject: Newest Security Update (fwd)

>Anyone else getting some sort of variation of this? I've received about
10 
>or 12 over the last 48 hours along with an exe file (removed). Very
good 
>social engineering ...

Yeah, been getting 'em both at home and at baylisa.org; have yet to see
them at freebsd.org.  I think a sendmail "milter" that would nuke *.exe
messages would be appropriate.

Peace,
david       (curent hat: postmaster@ the above sites)
-- 
David H. Wolfskill				david at catwhisker.org
If you want true virus-protection for your PC, install a non-Microsoft
OS
on it.  Plausible candidates include FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
and
Solaris (in alphabetical order).