Dette lyder skummelt, Kristian. Mener du at et oppdatert Norton ikke beskytter mot denne fæle ormen? Og hva er i tilfelle alternativet til Outlook Express, hvis man fremdeles vil beholde Windows? Heidi.
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From: «Kristian Østberg»
To: «O-ringen»
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 11:07 AM
Subject: Virusfare
> Hvis det fortsatt er folk som bruker Microsoft Outlook og Outlook
> Express, bør de snarest gå over til et annet program. Følgende står å
> lese i dagens nettmelding fra Ziff Davis (som utgir PC Magazine):
>
> «While it’s not widespread yet, a worm called WINEVAR.A is making the
> rounds and is likely to do a great deal of damage to unprotected Windows
> computers. According to this technical description, the worm changes the
> ownership information in the computer’s registry, kills antivirus
> programs, and infects the victim machine with the Funlove virus. It also
> mails itself to the user’s e-mail contacts.
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> But that’s not all…. It gets worse. The next time the machine is
> booted, the worm displays a dialogue box with an insulting message:
> «What a foolish thing you have done!» When the dialogue box is
> dismissed, the worm attempts to delete all the files on the hard disk.
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> Unfortunately, WINEVAR.A is more virulent than some published accounts
> say it is. For example, a description in The Register states that one
> has to click on an attachment to trigger the worm. But alas, this is
> only true if the user is running an e-mail program other than Microsoft
> Outlook or Outlook Express.
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> According to antivirus vendor Trend Micro, the worm «uses a known email
> exploit that causes the attachment to automatically execute when the
> message is viewed or previewed on Internet Explorer-based email clients,
> such as Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express.» It is this «feature»
> that should be of real concern to users and network administrators, as
> it may make WINEVAR.A as contagious as the ubiquitous Klez worm.
>
> Complicating matters, new reports indicate that some Winevar variants
> automatically execute, while others do not.»
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> Kristian
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