Religions > Atheism > Re: [Internet Safety] New E-Mail Worm Targets Hole in Internet Explorer
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"Christopher A. Lee" |
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19 Sep 2003 04:15:58 AM |
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Re: [Internet Safety] New E-Mail Worm Targets Hole in Internet Explorer |
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 07:38:20 GMT, "Dzuyen" <dzuyen75@yahoo.com> wrote:
The worm, dubbed "Swen" or "Gibe," takes advantage of a two-year-old
hole in Internet Explorer and affects systems that have not installed
a patch for that security hole, according to Internet security
company Network Associates Inc..
I've had several hundred since they appeared yesterday afternoon.
The worst part is that each one of them generates a warning from
Norton that needs a click to continue.
I'm not sure if I can turn off this warning. I certainly don't need
it.
And of course each one of them is 104kbytes. I doesn't take too many
of them to fill things up. I've got plenty of disk space on my PC but
there is a 20mb limit at the ISP.
Before I turned off backing up infected files before attempting to
clean them up, I had more than 200 files there.
I'm managing to killfile most of these but this takes time to set up
each time one gets through.
But of course this gets done _after_ the virus checking.
The malicious program arrives as an attachment to an e-mail
pretending to contain a patch for holes in Internet Explorer,
Outlook and Outlook Express and then mails itself off to addresses
located on the victim's computer.
Read complete story at =>> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20030918/tc_nm/tech_worm_swen_dc
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| User: "Dr. Smartass" |
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| Title: Re: [Internet Safety] New E-Mail Worm Targets Hole in Internet Explorer |
19 Sep 2003 08:30:02 PM |
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Christopher A. Lee <calee@optonline.net> wrote in
news:stglmvcmn90da8ndog5i9cr0i7b1qotpb3@4ax.com:
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 07:38:20 GMT, "Dzuyen" <dzuyen75@yahoo.com> wrote:
The worm, dubbed "Swen" or "Gibe," takes advantage of a two-year-old
hole in Internet Explorer and affects systems that have not installed
a patch for that security hole, according to Internet security
company Network Associates Inc..
I've had several hundred since they appeared yesterday afternoon.
The worst part is that each one of them generates a warning from
Norton that needs a click to continue.
I'm not sure if I can turn off this warning. I certainly don't need
it.
And of course each one of them is 104kbytes. I doesn't take too many
of them to fill things up. I've got plenty of disk space on my PC but
there is a 20mb limit at the ISP.
Before I turned off backing up infected files before attempting to
clean them up, I had more than 200 files there.
I'm managing to killfile most of these but this takes time to set up
each time one gets through.
But of course this gets done _after_ the virus checking.
Try using PopFile; it's a spam-filter proxy that sits between your email
program and your mail server. It scans each incoming message and compares
it to what it's seen before (the more it's used, the better it filters),
then tags that message accordingly--in my case, it adds [spam] or [pass]
to the subject line. If something gets through, you just go into its
interface (an HTML form) and mark the offending message to the correct
category, tell PopFile to change it, and you're done.
In Outlook Express, I've simplified my filters to only two since I started
using PopFile--one to dump any message tagged with [spam] in the subject
line, and one to dump any message marked as "high priority".
http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
It runs in its own Perl environment; there's a conflict between it and
Proxomitron (a pop-up killer/web page filter)--both are set up to use
127.0.0.1:8080, but setting PopFile to use port 8081 fixes it. Once it's
installed, you only have to set your email program to go through the proxy
and set PopFile to run at system start-up.
The virus blitz has pretty much not affected me--out of a dozen or so, only
one managed to get to my in-box. Everything else--including a couple of
bogus MS "warnings"--went right into the delete bin.
I likes it. :)
--
Dr. Smartass
BAAWA Knight of Heckling -- a.a. #1939
"And the knowledge that they fear
Is a weapon to be used against them."
--Rush, "The Weapon"
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