[28510] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Virus Update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rodney Joffe)
Thu May 4 12:13:42 2000
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Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 09:10:12 -0700
From: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com>
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To: "Branden R. Williams" <brw@netvitality.net>
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Symantec is unreachable (of course).
Does anyone have any info on patches/fixes etc?
Also, if you use sendmail, there is a patch available for Sendmail 8.9.x
... doesn't work with 8.10.x - available in the normal places - which
will stop the virus at your gateway..
"Branden R. Williams" wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 May 2000, Branden R. Williams wrote:
>
> > Should you run it, you will lose any files of the following
> > extensions. They will be renamed to filename.extension.vbs with a fresh
> > copy of the replication part.
>
> Actually it is a fresh copy of the entire virus. Sorry for the confusion.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Branden R. Williams <brw@netvitality.net>
> Vice President, Systems - NetVitality, Inc.
> http://www.netvitality.net/
> Internet Commerce Specialists
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Rodney Joffe
CenterGate Research Group, LLC.
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