[MR] Virus warning - NOT a hoax

[Christofe DuBois]

Also important:

The SirCam worm disguises itself by renaming the subject of the email as
well as the attachment (the two will be named the same).  These email
subjects may look familiar to you, as the worm extracts this information
from the sent mail of the infected computer.

It is also a little nastier than your conventional denial-of-service bug, as
it can either fill your hard drive with garbarge in a sircam.sys file hidden
on the computer, or geek the hard drive completely, depending on your date
configuration...

It is WELL to your advantage to keep a close eye out and keep your virus
programs at the ready.  In the last 2 weeks, I've received approximately 100
of these, so the bug is spreading pretty well...

-Christofe DuBois
Owner, THE HUNT
http://www.scahunt.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Maxson" <kevin at maxson.com>
To: "Merry Rose Tavern at Cheapside" <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [MR] Virus warning - NOT a hoax


> Edvard Gayer wrote:
> >
> > Information on removing this worm can be found at:
> >
> > http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.html
>
> Indeed, this worm is real.  I implore each of you to investigate whether
> you have this on your computer.  I've been receiving this e-mail from
> all over the world for over a week now.  They're large messages; always
> over 200Kb and sometimes as high as 850Kb.  If you get enough of them
> piled up, they will fill your mailbox (if you have a POP mailbox like I
> do) and then e-mail to you will start to bounce.  I've received over 300
> of these all told.
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