[MR] Virus warning - NOT a hoax

[Wolf Kestris RowanWood]

There is another addy which is from 'heron51' that also contains the
infected attatchment and says roughly the same thing.

Here's a brief sypnosis on what it does-

W32/Sircam-A is considered particularly damaging because of its
ability to distribute confidential information from your computer
to email addresses found in your address book and temporary
internet files.


Update your virus proggies, folks and becareful.

-Wolf


> Friends:
>
> This is a for-real virus warning.  I was just emailed a virus-laden
> attachment from bob at prodigy.net.mx with the subject line "Blank - Kingdom
of
> Atlantia Rapier Marshal Paperwork"
>
> The attachment contained the W32/SirCam at MM virus, a worm which is
documented
> on the Symantec Anti-Virus Research Center (SARC.com) website.  This is a
> new virus, first reported on 7/17/01.  Information on removing this worm
can
> be found at:
>
> http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.html
>
> Note, I have received at least TWO emails from "bob", both of them with
> SCA-related information in the subject line.  The body of the email in
both
> cases was identical (which is a tip-off):
>
> >Hi! How are you?
> >
> >I send you this file in order to have your advice
> >
> >See you later. Thanks
>
> Look VERY carefully at any attachments you may receive, especially if it
> appears to be coming from someone you do not know.  The first email I
> received contained a .doc file which had .com appended to the end (as in
> filename.doc.com), the second was filename.doc.bat.  Both .com and .bat
> files are executables, and receiving a file of either type in an
unsolicited
> email should immediately tip you off that something is rotten in Denmark.
>
> Best of luck!
>
> // Vard //
>
> Lord Edvard Gayer, Secretary
> L'Academie Atlantienne de la Danse
> http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/academie.htm