Barry,
Sad but true. I will cite another example of one of those viruses that happened
to me.
One of the list members (I won't say who) sent me a file called "Happy 99.exe" a
while ago. It was a cutesy little fireworks program that appeared to do little
more than create a fireworks display on your screen. However it also contained
a worm virus that went in and created two files in The windows system directory
and also changed the name of the winsock.dll file and affected anything that
uses that particular file.
So I agree with your precaution to: "Don't open any executable file sent to you
by EMAIL until you know for sure what it will do."
Regards,
Joe
Barry Schwartz wrote:
>
> I don't usually send this stuff out, but this one affected me (indirectly)
> This one is NOT a hoax. Many of the computers here at work were affected
> with this virus (not somebody that somebody knew that told me etc.) The
> computer next to my cubical here at work had it's hard drive windows exe
> files trashed among several others - It's a variation of the Trojan worm
> with the filename IROC.EXE. it comes with a note saying something to the
> effect of here's a neat little Star Trek screen saver. if executed from
> your e-mail program, It finds your mailing list(s) and sends itself out to
> (in this case the first 60 people on the global list that it found) and I
> was one of the recipients, but saved it to disk instead of opening it.
> Others here were not so lucky. As with anything sent via E-MAIL do NOT
> open any executable (*.exe) files unless you have VERIFIED that (A) it came
> from someone you trust (and that means e-mailing them back and asking if
> they actually sent, and used it), or (B) saving it to a disk, then scan it
> first with a virus checking program. While it may not catch all of them,
> it sure beats having most or all your files destroyed. Most people here at
> work "assumed" that because it was sent by somebody they knew at work, and,
> that "it was already checked" that it was alright. It just goes to show
> the importance of verifying things sent via e-mail that you aren't entirely
> sure about. At work they use NAV for checking this stuff, but apparently
> this one is too new and they didn't have it updated to scan for this
> particular strain of this virus-
> Makes you wonder abut these lowlife pond scum that have nothing better to
> do than destroy other peoples property, and think it's a big joke -
> Oh well, just thought I'd pass the info along for what it's worth - if it
> saves somebody this grief then it's worth the bandwidth and slight
> inconvenience of having to read this, at least in my opinion -
> Geeze, the guy next to me gets a three day weekend, humm. . . maybe I
> should have opened that file after all :-)
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