New Virus

by **wpsr2005** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 2:35 am

Hello, Iam fairly new to this site, but iam not new to computing. I work for a school district here in San Antonio, and we had a major virus problem about 2 weeks ago. We had to complety shut down all of our servers and we are still not back up yet. The same Virus struck Texas A&M about 2 days later. Now this is as far as it went, i do belive. But the child that did this is out on bail. So you may want to be carful.

by **augie** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 2:41 am

Welcom to PROneTworks. What's it called?

by **UNIX2008** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 10:09 am

As augie said, welcome to pro net. What exactly does the virus do? It sounds like it really did a number on the network.

:(

by **MinusDriver** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 4:19 pm

We got the Trojan.Xombe virus this week. It's one of the emails that says:

From: windowsupdate@microsoft.com
Subject: Windows XP Service Pack 1 (Express) - Critical Update.
Attachment: winxp_sp1.exe(4,096 KB)

Dang office employees dont know any better and downloaded it. It was the one employee with laptop so definitions weren't updated yet. Sigh

Discovered on: January 09, 2004
Last Updated on: January 09, 2004 03:51:41 PM

:-x

I hate virues! :-x

by **Mac33** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 5:23 pm

Thanks for the heads up Guardian :yesnod:

by **kanaloa** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 5:29 pm

I heard about this one... nasty sucker too. Thanks for the heads up.

by **UNIX2008** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 2:49 am

Guardian wrote:We got the Trojan.Xombe virus this week. It's one of the emails that says:

From: windowsupdate@microsoft.com
Subject: Windows XP Service Pack 1 (Express) - Critical Update.
Attachment: winxp_sp1.exe(4,096 KB)

Dang office employees dont know any better and downloaded it. It was the one employee with laptop so definitions weren't updated yet. Sigh

Discovered on: January 09, 2004
Last Updated on: January 09, 2004 03:51:41 PM

I hate virues!

Man that is a clever virus. But just for future note, Microsoft usually attaches a link to the security part of their website with info on the email they sent. Usually they have a list of emails they send out, and they have a section where you can contact a security rep. if you are unsure of the email. :dontgetit

by **MinusDriver** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 5:45 pm

UNIX2008,
Yeah I know better trust me. It's just normal people that just use their computer for email don't know any better. Sigh

There is always something out their to make my job a little more interesting I suppose. lol :confused

by ***Starz*** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:08 pm

I'm just curious...how many of you are getting bombarded by the one that claims to be from PayPal...I'm getting at least 5 or 6 hits a day from that one.

by **MinusDriver** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:10 pm

You know *Starz*,
I can't say I've had much trouble with that one anymore. There was a point though about a month ago I was getting lots of emails about that one. Sorry I know it can be very fustrating and annoying.

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