[3675] in WWW Security List Archive
FW: virus on the internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Kennedy)
Tue Dec 3 23:39:17 1996
Date: 03 Dec 96 21:25:28 EST
From: David Kennedy <76702.3557@compuserve.com>
To: "INTERNET:lsmith@jrctc.com" <lsmith@jrctc.com>,
WWW Security List <WWW-SECURITY@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>>Is anyone familiar with this WARNING???
Yes
>>Is it authentic?
No
>>What are the remedies?
Stop spreading it.
Dave Kennedy [CISSP] Research Team Chief, National Computer Security Assoc.
ps:
From today's firewalls list (thanks to Warren):
Date: 3 Dec 96 9:08:44
From: Warren Moore <warren.moore@cbis.com>
Subject: Strange Virus...
Probably off-subject, but considering what's been on here for the last day or
so, maybe not...funny regardless.
Free Money!!!
There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet.
If you receive an e-mail message with the subject line "Free Money,"
DO NOT read the message. DELETE it immediately, UNPLUG your computer,
then BURN IT to ASHES in a government-approved toxic waste disposal
INCINERATOR.
Once a computer is infected, it will be TOO LATE. Your computer will
begin to emit a vile ODOR. Then it will secrete a foul, milky DISCHARGE.
Verily, it shall SCREECH with the tortured, monitor-shattering
SCREAM of 1,000 hell-scorched souls, drawing unwanted attention to
your cubicle from co-workers and supervisors alike. After violently
ripping itself from the wall, your computer will punch through
your office window as it STREAKS into the night, HOWLING like a
BANSHEE. Once free, it will spend the rest of its days CRUSHING
household PETS and MOCKING the POPE.
Some filthy, disgusting miscreant... some no-good, low-down, good-for
- -nothing DIRTY SNAKE, in twisted pursuit of his own sadistic dreams,
is sending this virus across the Net via an e-mail entitled "Free
Money." What is so terrifying about this virus is that you do not
even to have to open the e-mail for it to activate. In fact, you do
not even need to RECEIVE the e-mail. You do not even need to OWN a
COMPUTER. "Free Money" can infect even minor HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES.
How it does this with straight ASCII code is, franky, a matter of
some debate... but BELIEVE YOU US, if this weren't a SERIOUS
situation, WE WOULDN'T BE DISCUSSING IT IN 'ALL CAPS'.
So for the LOVE OF GOD, forward this e-mail to all those you claim
to care about, all those you purport to love. Don't do it later!
Do it NOW! Now! Now! NOW! NOW! NOW!
Attachment converted: deathlab:free_money_virus.sea (VIRUS/VRS)
0003D961
Content-Type: virus/sea; name="Free_Money_Virus" (SUCKER/SKR) (SRC:WTBR)
Auto-Infect: enabled
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Warren S. Moore, CISSP
Information Security Specialist
Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc.
<warren.moore@cbis.com>
- ---also---
Mayor, City of Union, KY
<warren.moore@worldnet.att.net>
Jack of All Trades, Master of Damn Few!
