Hello myhosting.com users, readers and all. We wanted to provide you all a heads up on a virus threat that’s very recently been discovered. It’s a rather nasty one so we’re providing the details below so you can protect yourself.
Details can be found on symantec’s site: http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/new-round-email-worm-here-you-have
Security Response has confirmed reports of a worm spreading through email under the subject “Here you have”. The mail to the unsuspecting recipient claims to be providing a document available through a URL. The URL is spoofed and actually points to a malicious program being hosted on a different server.
The email will appear similar to the following:
In this instance, the actual file downloaded would be named ‘PDF_Document21_025542010_pdf.scr’ and is housed on the domain ‘members.multimania.co.uk’. This file is a minor variation of W32.Imsolk.A@mm. The main characteristics of the worm’s functionality are as follows:
- Spread through mapped drives through autorun
- Spread through email by taking contacts from the address book
- Spread through instant messenger
- Disables various security related programs
Symantec users will be protected from this threat under the name “Trojan Horse”, if virus definitions version 20100909.023 or later are applied.
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Thanks for this, I appreciate this warning. Doesn’t sound like much fun if you open this email!
Any updates on this virus? Did anyone get wiped out by this thing?
Hopefully, the “here you have” threat has passed, and it’s a good reminder not to open anything if you’re unsure of where it came from (or, at least open it up on someone else’s computer!)
The sad part is, as soon as one threat like this passes, another one pops up right away.
Yes, as long as there is computing, there will be viruses.
I feel like a bad virus is coming since it’s been a while since my last one. I’m bracing myself.