Just a note to the lists about a virus that has come up in the last week
or so. I was asked about it by list members (one got it but didn't get
burned), confirmed it, and thought I would drop a line to the group.
Unfortunately this goes out the same day Allen (WAY too much time on his
hands) Hefner posts about the well known Work Virus.
911 (firkin) is a for real virus that comes attached to an email. the
attachment can be called mine.exe. (It really is a worm) it does a couple
of things. One it can wipe your drive but the fun one is - for those with
modem lines - it will spend all day calling 911 repeatedly. The FBI
called it a serious "Denial of Service" attack against the 911 system.
And the cops might get mad at you for dialing 911 for no reason.
More info can be found at
http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/firkin.htm
This baby will get Win 3.1, Win95 and Win98. Less likely to get NT as it
wants to go in the C:\WINDOWS directory which NT does not normally have.
Nor will it get a MAC!! (LMAO)
Nor Unix either.
I know - WAY Too much information. Keep those Virus DAT files updated.
Larry
Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Administrator/Manager
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 1015 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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