[MR] Very Nasty Virus Alert (Goner) and another called "HI"

[Martha Wallenhorst]

My sons office was hit with a new virus today.  It was replicated from a
friendly computer on a casual email address.  It has HI in the subject and
once opened it replicates itself through your address book and then mails
everyone in it.  The damage it does is to the .dll and .sys files and has
destroyed the hard drives and cmos of several of the computers in his
office.  So if you get a note from someone you know that just says "hi" in
the subject be careful. Sorry to disturb the list but I have found 8 viruses
through this list in the last year including sircam and codered.
Annejke

> -----Original Message-----
> From: atlantia-admin at atlantia.sca.org
> [mailto:atlantia-admin at atlantia.sca.org]On Behalf Of Rupert Gaddy
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 4:19 PM
> To: Sca. Org Atlantia at Atlantia.
> Subject: [MR] Very Nasty Virus Alert (Goner)
>
>
>
> I never post virus warnings, but our IT folks are really upset by this one
> called GONER, because among other things it destroys your virus protection
> system files on your computer as well as terminally damaging the
> Windows OS,
> maybe even loosing all your data on the PC.
>
> Once you are infected it grabs your mail program and mails itself to
> everyone on your address book (in my case including this group).
>
> Watch out for this one, it also spreads by IRC
>
> It seems to always have a ".scr" extension, so if you get
> anything with that
> extension I suggest you NOT open it but delete it ASAP
>
> Details at this link:
>
> http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.goner.
a at mm.html


Like I said, I NEVER post virus warnings but this one has already infected
the college system and caused chaos!

Rupert the Persistent


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