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Bill Norrie
Member 		posted 12-16-2004 02:21 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Bill Norrie   Click Here to Email Bill Norrie     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
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).]

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Giovanni
Member 		posted 12-16-2004 10:23 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Giovanni   Click Here to Email Giovanni     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
Thanks Bill, for the warning to the Forum members , this sort of thing is very worrying and causes so many problems .

There's enough hassle without these idiots who keep making up these virus's adding to it all !!!

Best Wishes ............Giovanni

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Phil Lynch
unregistered 		posted 12-21-2004 09:43 AM           Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
Hi Bill.
Thanks for this one!!.It had to happen,someone who dosen't like Christmas.
Or any other time of the year.
The strange thing about these sick people is, they will be very clever programmers.But not clever enough to use the skills they possess,to advantage.
Thanks again Bill.
Sincerely.
Joe.
PS, I have spent many a New Year in Edinburgh.(Newington Area)

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R-F
Member 		posted 12-22-2004 02:47 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for R-F   Click Here to Email R-F     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
Hi,
today I read in the swiss forum about a virus hitting web sites.
It helps to update to phpBB Version 2.0.11.
Another solution is
open viewtopic.php
found:

Code:
//
// Was a highlight request part of the URI?
//
$highlight_match = $highlight = '';
if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['highlight']))
{
   // Split words and phrases
   $words = explode(' ', trim(htmlspecialchars(urldecode($HTTP_GET_VARS['highlight']))));

   for($i = 0; $i < sizeof($words); $i++)
   {


replace this by:

Code:
//
// Was a highlight request part of the URI?
//
$highlight_match = $highlight = '';
if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['highlight']))
{
   // Split words and phrases
   $words = explode(' ', trim(htmlspecialchars($HTTP_GET_VARS['highlight'])));

   for($i = 0; $i < sizeof($words); $i++)
   {
I quote because it was posted in German

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Regards
RF

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