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Email worm eats security software
Posted on 02/01/02 17:08 by Guest
And there will dissable your security software.
The ZaCker (or Maldal.D) worm can delete antivirus software protection and a variety of critical system files from the PCs of unwary users. Typically, the mass mailing worm arrives by email with the subject line ZaCker and an executable, infected attachment which weighs in at 27KB. It uses Outlook to spread itself to everybody in the Outlook address book. More information about ZaCker can be found Here Over the holidays another mass mailer, called Sheer.A (or Zoher) did the rounds. This takes advantage of an IE exploit which means an infected attachment could be opened simply by reading or previewing a message. More information on Sheer.A can be found Here |
So time to get your antivirus software updated to keep those bad worms out of your pc.
Source: The Register
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Talking of security holes in IE. Have any of yourself found yourself in this situation:
You go to a website that has a pop up window that links to some stupid porno site. The next second there is a dialer program installed on your system and it is open and trying to dial?
I'm on Win2k with IE6 and this has happened to me quite a bit. The program has copied itself to my hard drive and installed itself without me authorising it at all.
Anyone else had this problem?
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Guest,
Wednesday 02 January 2002 20:32
sorry no,
try posting that in the forum maybe someone has an answer.
Yes, and that's were the forum is for, reactions here, questions there ! 
JS.Exploit ?
allowing your IE to run to much is dangerous, restrict it more
from dangerous ActiveX etc...By
Guest,
Thursday 03 January 2002 01:05
You can avoid a lot of problems using McAfee's v.5&6 using Internet Filter. Just go to the popup-laden site and let all the popups pop. Right-click and get their address or URL from the Properties Sheets. Type the address or URL in the appropriate VirusScan form for Internet Filter. (Just be careful that you don't wipe out your access the the site you do want to access.) Then when the popups start, you don't download or see the content of the offending sites. Under any circumstance, I can't believe anyone reading anything on CDFREAKS wouldn't have major virus protection.
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