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Dear Members,
There are several virus currently in the wild that are infecting a lot or our systems. We do have a few of our members email accounts that are infected with one or all of these virus, although I am unable to tell which user is infected from my end, I am asking all AFA USAirways Flight Attendants and subscribers to please run a virus check on their PC's. Your virus program should be updated with the latest virus pattern file and the file should be no older than 5-7 days. If you are having a problem running your virus program, you may have a problem. The majority of virus' shutdown or disable the virus programs. And all new virus now allow remote access to the individual's computer and or network. (PLEASE READ THE SECOND ARTICLE BELOW IN THIS NEWSLETTER) Below is a list of the most recent virus and those with the high damage potential as well as high distribution potential. -- WORM_MYTOB.EG -- WORM_MYTOB.ED -- WORM_SOBER.S-Q- More information can be found at any Virus Program website, including at the bottom right of our website - www.afausairways.org. Here are a few sites with information and some even offer free online virus scans. -- http://securityresponse.symantec.com/ As always, please contact me if you are having any problems. Thank You, C.A. "Chuck" Cannaday ***********
Latest Sober worm sends German spam MAY 16, 2005 (IDG NEWS
SERVICE) - E-mail users perplexed by the barrage of
German-language spam waiting in their in-boxes this morning can blame the
latest version of the Sober mass-mailing worm, which began rapidly spreading
over the weekend.
Sober.q uses both German- and
English-language messages to direct recipients to Web sites with right-wing
German nationalistic content, according to an advisory from e-mail security
company MX Logic Inc. in Englewood, Colo. One of the URLs points to the Web
site of the right-wing German National Democratic Party, the security firm
said.
MX Logic said that it had seen over 125,000
instances of Sober.q overnight Saturday and into Sunday and labeled it as a
high-severity threat. The variant is downloaded by computers already infected
by the Sober.p worm, which began circulating earlier this month, MX Logic
said. The virus writers appear to have remote control over the
Sober.p-infected machines, giving them a network from which to
launch future spam and denial-of-service attacks.
The latest sober variant is one of a
relatively new type of "propaganda spam," meant to spread political
messages rather than sell a product or service, MX Logic said. Circulation of
the worm coincides with ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the end of
World War II in Europe and examples of subject lines it sends include
"Dresden 1945" and "Du wirst zum Sklaven gemacht!!!"
("You are made slaves!!!").
"We are certainly seeing more propaganda
spam," said Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos PLC.
Security researchers began detecting religious spam selling a particular view
of life last year, Cluley said.
Although Sophos is seeing a lot of
German-language spam sent by the new Sober variant, the worm itself doesn't
appear to be spreading anymore, Cluley said.
E-mail users are advised to update their spam
filters to guard against the new Sober spam. |
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