Virus Warning!

**Hillbillie** · 08-14-2001

Okay, I just caught a virus from an e-mail attachment. If you get any e-mails from some 'ChessFreak' guy, don't open the attachment!!! His addy is something like '[email protected]'....I can't remember.

This is the worst virus I've seen. When I try to run _any_ program, it runs the virus, spreading itself to another part of your harddrive.

Does anyone know about this virus and how to possibly get rid of it. BTW, Norton said it deleted the virus, but apparently it didn't fix it...

*Gets ready to reformat :-(.....

***webmaster*** · 08-14-2001

I think its the W95.MTX, at least, that is the virus that infected my computer. [email protected] is my email address. One of my family members infected a computer in my house, and you were, apparently, sent an email by the virus. It was not intentional.

**Hillbillie** · 08-14-2001

I figured it was unintentional...

Anywho, I got Windows reinstalled. Hehe, this website looks major funny without an SVGA driver installed

**Fordy** · 08-14-2001

Nasty sounding little bug - did it do anything specific?

**Hillbillie** · 08-14-2001

Nasty sounding little bug - did it do anything specific?

Hmm...not really. I just couldn't run anything at all, so my computer was basically a big paperweight. Anyways, I needed to reinstall Windows....

**Fool** · 08-14-2001

That sucks man, thanks for the heads up!

-Fool

**SilentStrike** · 08-14-2001

I just got one of those messages as well.

"Subj: No
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 7:41:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: "Chessfreak"<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]

No.doc.pif (244169 bytes)

Hi! How are you?

I send you this file in order to have your advice

See you later. Thanks

"

**doubleanti** · 08-14-2001

i got that too, but the attachment said it has a virus (i guess i have hotmail to thank for that, which means thank you, yes, M$...) wierd... and it must have felt refreshing to reformat eh Hillbillie? and yes, everything looks funny in 16 colors... but it is pretty cool how they blend to try to emulate other colors... you get a pretty good idea of the actual pictures, remarkably!

**adrianxw** · 08-15-2001

This is the sircam virus. From McAfee website...

>>>
This mass-mailing virus attempts to send itself and local documents to all users found in the Windows Address Book and email addresses found in temporary Internet cached files (web browser cache).

It may be received in an email message containing the following information:

Subject: [filename (random)]
Body: Hi! How are you?

I send you this file in order to have your advice
or I hope you can help me with this file that I send
or I hope you like the file that I sendo you
or This is the file with the information that you ask for

See you later. Thanks
<<<

Also sent in Spanish sometimes.

**Chemanuel** · 08-15-2001

Now that you mentioned it, I remember that on Monday (perhaps Tuesday) I got a warning message telling that an email sent to me had a virus.

The body of the message was something like

This is the file with the information that you ask for Linux

I don't know the original address since yahoo only sent me the notification.

I can't remember now exactly but I think it was in Spanish.

**Theologian** · 08-15-2001

There's a spanish and an english version.

You need to run the Mcaffee program to remove it. If you get it you may need to clean up autoexec.bat also.

Another problem to check for after you remove it from your machine is that rundll32.exe in the windows directory gets renamed to run32.exe. If you don't change the name back you will have trouble opening items on the control panel.

The virus does not delete anything but on some computers (this is part of a random deal in the virus) it will fill your hard drive to capacity.

In october it runs another little random dealy and has like a 33% chance of deleting your entire hard drive.

But while it is on your machine it will grab items from your MyDocuments folder and mail them to people as attachments. I have gotten some very interesting mail from people. Personal pictures, documents, etc.

I don't think it affects NT. I know for sure that it only hits M$ machines.

**no-one** · 08-15-2001

never had any such a thing... though i strive not to get set up the bomb so...

**Govtcheez** · 08-15-2001

not to get set up the bomb

LOL!

Move zig. For great justice.

**Nick** · 08-15-2001

hmm better rename My Docments to docs

**VirtualAce** · 08-15-2001

I have a Yahoo e-mail account and I found the PE_Magistr.A and PE_Magistr.DAM virus in one of it's e-mail attachments. I'm currently working on a program with someone over the net so I thought the attached exe (setup32.exe) was from him. I should have known better since the subject line was a bit strange, but I ran the exe anyways. Real stupid. The Magistra virus totally wrecked all of my .exe and .scr files. This virus uses a random subject line, random text - about 60 characters or so taken from the infected computer's drive and an attached exe. Do not mess with this e-mail. Just delete it. First virus that I've had since the old Form virus back in the 80's and early 90's.

If you get this virus, go to www.symantec.com to find out more about how to kill it.

So, instead of getting more code from part of my team, I ended up losing all of the code, headers, dlls, and everything else since I FDISK'ed, re-formatted, and re-installed Windows.

How do most of you keep backups of your projects? I do not have a CDRW or a zip drive and the project would have taken many 1.44 floppies.

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