-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Well now that's the tricky part, getting rid of it. First, did you open this under Windows? If you opened it under Linux, you probably don't need to worry about it. Anything with a .exe extention is most probably a Windows executable. If you did open it under Windows, then you'll need to clean it out. You can't trust your virus scanner to do it for you, as it may or may not be corrupted by the virus. (yes there are viruses that attempt to corrupt virus scanners and/or firewalls) The first step is to identify the virus you have. Look at the following web site: http://housecall.trendmicro.com Here you can run a virus scan over the web. You want to use this to identify the virus because it is not subject to corruption by the virus. The accessibility on this sight is tarrible, but it's the only one of it's kind that I know of. This scanner can clean some viruses, and if it cleans it out than your done. If it doesn't, then you have to clean it out yourself. I can't discuss how to do it, as the instructions very based on the virus. - --- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net - ----- Original Message ----- From: "hank" <hank@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 9:53 AM Subject: Re: mail viruses > whats worse is I got one from my hanksmith.net support team > 1 I don't have a support team it gave me a readme.zip with a .exe > and a password to inter to unlock the program > what was even dumber of me was I launched the stupid thing before I > knew what it was. > I scanned with avg and it didn't find any viruses so don't know if > this was > a virus or what it was but I got something simular. > if I do have a virus the question is what is it? and where can I > get a removal tool? > thanks > hank > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <showell at lrxms.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 3:55 AM > Subject: mail viruses > > > > Folks, > > > > Yes there are some amazing viruses or whatever you want to call > > them running amuck. Check out the following its pretty > > interesting. I've not included the header info, but its the text > > of the message that I find slightly amusing. > > Note there is no attachment so don't be alarmed by what you read. > > > > > > Subject: Notify about your e-mail account utilization. > > From: support at lrxms.net > > > > [-- Attachment #1 --] > > [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.3K --] > > > > Dear user of Lrxms.net gateway e-mail server, > > > > Our main mailing server will be temporary unavaible for next > > two days, to continue receiving mail in these days you have to > > configure our free > > auto-forwarding service. > > > > For details see the attach. > > > > Best wishes, > > The Lrxms.net team > > http://www.lrxms.net > > > > [-- Attachment #2: Information.pif --] > > [-- Type: application/octet-stream, Encoding: base64, Size: 16K > > --] > > > > [-- application/octet-stream is unsupported (use 'v' to view this > > part) --] > > > > The part that is amusing to me is I didn't know I had a support > > team, I didn't know I had a mail server/gateway, and well > > although lrxms.net is my domain, I don't have a web page at > > http://www.lrxms.net. I am very interested in this virus all the > > same for what its doing. > > Clever! > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBQEkWNyenap9Jqj2wEQKK5ACfe9gvKLAAPZk1T+KZV+DBTCxq0cMAoI4u QFlxN81OpCDYQ9pUJN4cs6S/ =Hp3d -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
