[62464] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Virus uptick?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Tancsa)
Thu Sep 18 12:08:04 2003
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:59:52 -0400
To: wb8foz@nrk.com, nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <200309181408.KAA04105@sigma.nrk.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 10:08 AM 18/09/2003, David Lesher wrote:
>I'm suddenly getting 3-4x the "M$ patch" and "bounced mail"
>virus attacks as compared to 2-3 days ago.
This virus seems to depart from the standard "Click on mine patches
pleases" type text. Instead, it has quite an elaborate message complete
with in line graphics etc to make it look legit. I imagine quite a few
people are being fooled into clicking on it :-(
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100662.htm
has a screen shot.
---Mike
