While we are still dealing with the new virus Badtrans , we have another new on to deal with now. ============ VIRUS ALERT There is a new and dangerous virus in circulation with the key details as follows: The essential details are as follows: · Virus name: Goner · Official name: W32/Goner.A-mm · Number of copies seen so far: over 16,000 · Time & Date first Captured: 4 Dec 2001 10:49 GMT · Origin of first intercepted copy: United States · Number of countries seen active: 17 · Top three most active countries: US, UK, France No MessageLabs customer has been affected by this virus. Description: The virus creates emails with the following characteristics. Subject: Hi Text: How are you ? When I saw this screen saver, I immediately thought about you I am in a harry, I promise you will love it! Attachment: gone.scr Size: 38912 Detection: The virus was detected pro-actively by Skeptic, MessageLabs proprietary heuristics technology for detecting new outbreaks. Traditional anti-virus software will need to download a new patch before it can identify and stop this virus. Payload: The virus attempts to disable any anti-virus software running locally. Further analysis is on-going. Distribution Rate: This is one of the fastest spreading viruses MessageLabs has ever seen and we are currently stopping over 100 copies every minute. World Spread Earlier figures show that as at 16:00 GMT, the county-by-country information for those samples where country information was available was as follows: Time First Seen Country Copies --------------- ------- ------ 2001-12-04 10:49 US 43 2001-12-04 10:58 GB 49 2001-12-04 11:55 FR 10 2001-12-04 13:02 DE 1 2001-12-04 13:30 NL 7 2001-12-04 13:34 CH 33 2001-12-04 14:08 AR 2 Please visit www.messagelabs.com for further information regarding this virus. Regards MessageLabs MessageLabs is a Managed Service Provider (MSP) specialising in Internet-level e-mail content filtering. Our revolutionary SkyScan portfolio of services enables customers to be protected from threats such as viruses and unsolicited mail, before they come anywhere near the network boundaries.
On what you can to protect yourself is to remind the good folk on the list to change their e-mail program to anything else, but MS Outlook. Eudora, Pegasus mail, Netscape anything, but the MS product. Seeing that these Viruses are written to take advantage of this programs lack of security? If you can afford to do so change your OS from MS to any other available OS Linux/Solaris, OS2, BeOS, QNX, Symbian OS, or get a Mac. Doing anyone or both will stop these critters dead in their tracks. Laurie Wood Brandt Dan M wrote: > > While we are still dealing with the new virus Badtrans , we have another new > on to deal with now. > ============ > VIRUS ALERT > > There is a new and dangerous virus in circulation with the key details as > follows: > > The essential details are as follows: > > · Virus name: Goner > · Official name: W32/Goner.A-mm > · Number of copies seen so far: over 16,000 > · Time & Date first Captured: 4 Dec 2001 10:49 GMT > · Origin of first intercepted copy: United States > · Number of countries seen active: 17 > · Top three most active countries: US, UK, France > > No MessageLabs customer has been affected by this virus. > > Description: > > The virus creates emails with the following characteristics. > > Subject: Hi > > Text: > How are you ? > When I saw this screen saver, I immediately thought about you > I am in a harry, I promise you will love it! > > Attachment: gone.scr > > Size: 38912 > > Detection: > > The virus was detected pro-actively by Skeptic, MessageLabs proprietary > heuristics technology for detecting new outbreaks. Traditional anti-virus > software will need to download a new patch before it can identify and stop > this virus. > > Payload: > > The virus attempts to disable any anti-virus software running locally. > Further analysis is on-going. > > Distribution Rate: > > This is one of the fastest spreading viruses MessageLabs has ever seen and > we are currently stopping over 100 copies every minute. > > World Spread > > Earlier figures show that as at 16:00 GMT, the county-by-country information > for those samples where country information was available was as follows: > > Time First Seen Country Copies > --------------- ------- ------ > 2001-12-04 10:49 US 43 > 2001-12-04 10:58 GB 49 > 2001-12-04 11:55 FR 10 > 2001-12-04 13:02 DE 1 > 2001-12-04 13:30 NL 7 > 2001-12-04 13:34 CH 33 > 2001-12-04 14:08 AR 2 > > Please visit www.messagelabs.com for further information regarding this > virus. > > Regards > > MessageLabs > > MessageLabs is a Managed Service Provider (MSP) specialising in > Internet-level e-mail content filtering. Our revolutionary SkyScan portfolio > of services enables customers to be protected from threats such as viruses > and unsolicited mail, before they come anywhere near the network boundaries. > > ==== WEBB Mailing List ==== > To change list modes or leave http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/w/webb.html > Use < http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/w/e/WEBB/ > > To connect to your list website and post your web links and family pages > TO contact list owner <WEBB-admin@rootsweb.com >or post a complaint > To read Webb lines http://www.angelfire.com/or/matney/WebbPlace.html > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1237