Watch out for some more new viruses enclosed in emails - they could just ruin your Christmas......
New variants of the 'Atak' virus are 'in the wild'. They use email messages with the subject Merry X-Mas! or Happy New Year! and the message text "Happy New year and wish you good luck on next year!" or "Merry Chrismas & Hapy New Year! 2005 will be the beginning!"(mis-spelled) What's more, the address of the sender of the messages is spoofed, as they use the addresses they collect from other infected computers. The attachment is always compressed in a zip file and contains a file with the extension bat, com, pif or scr. If the user runs this file, the worms create copies of themselves in the Windows system directory under the name dec25.exe. At the same time, they use their own SMTP engine to send themselves out to all the addresses they find in files with certain extensions stored on the affected computer.

Also - see here : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/15/zafi-d_worm/


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Willum

[This message has been edited by Bill Norrie (edited 12-16-2004).]