muckshifter
11-01-2001, 04:04 AM
This might be nothing, or it might be serious. I only warn you about viruses when what I read concerns me.
F-Secure raised the alarm level of the latest variant to the
powerful Nimda virus. The company raised its warning to level 1, the most severe.
On Monday F-Secure advised about the new variant, Nimda.e. At that time it appeared the proliferation might not become as widespread as the original Nimda worm, with initial outbreaks in Sweden and Germany only. Since Monday Nimda.e has appeared in the U.S., Spain, Norway, Finland and China, and continues to spread.
According to F-Secure, infection could bring a massive slowdown to a PC and potentially to an entire network. In one case with Nimda.a, a radio station actually stopped broadcasting because its schedule was on an internal network that became infected. Simply reading a Nimda-infected e-mail message can result in an incursion of the virus onto your system. You don't even have to open an attachment.
F-Secure, makers of the F-Secure AntiVirus for Windows and Linux as well as several other security products:
http://www.f-secure.com/
F-Secure's Nimda.e page:
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/nimda_e.shtml
Symantec's SARC security response site has also recently upgraded
Nimda.e's threat level to category 3 (highest threat):
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.nimda.e@mm.html
Although Trend Micro (makers of PC-Cillin) has not updated its
Nimda.e risk assessment (it remains "low risk"), the company's
Nimda.e page is instructive:
http://www.antivirus.com/pc-cillin/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=PE_NIMDA.E
Mucks
:hat:
F-Secure raised the alarm level of the latest variant to the
powerful Nimda virus. The company raised its warning to level 1, the most severe.
On Monday F-Secure advised about the new variant, Nimda.e. At that time it appeared the proliferation might not become as widespread as the original Nimda worm, with initial outbreaks in Sweden and Germany only. Since Monday Nimda.e has appeared in the U.S., Spain, Norway, Finland and China, and continues to spread.
According to F-Secure, infection could bring a massive slowdown to a PC and potentially to an entire network. In one case with Nimda.a, a radio station actually stopped broadcasting because its schedule was on an internal network that became infected. Simply reading a Nimda-infected e-mail message can result in an incursion of the virus onto your system. You don't even have to open an attachment.
F-Secure, makers of the F-Secure AntiVirus for Windows and Linux as well as several other security products:
http://www.f-secure.com/
F-Secure's Nimda.e page:
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/nimda_e.shtml
Symantec's SARC security response site has also recently upgraded
Nimda.e's threat level to category 3 (highest threat):
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.nimda.e@mm.html
Although Trend Micro (makers of PC-Cillin) has not updated its
Nimda.e risk assessment (it remains "low risk"), the company's
Nimda.e page is instructive:
http://www.antivirus.com/pc-cillin/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=PE_NIMDA.E
Mucks
:hat: