---- START NEW MESSAGE --- Received: from cherry.ease.lsoft.com [209.119.0.109] by dpmail10.doteasy.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id A0AD3937008E; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:46:53 -0800 Received: from PEAR.EASE.LSOFT.COM (209.119.0.19) by cherry.ease.lsoft.com (LSMTP for Digital Unix v1.1b) with SMTP id <7.00CC01F2@cherry.ease.lsoft.com>; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:46:45 -0500 Received: from MITVMA.MIT.EDU by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8e) with spool id 9773 for PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:46:37 -0500 Received: from MITVMA (NJE origin SMTP@MITVMA) by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LMail V1.2d/1.8d) with BSMTP id 6390; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:44:48 -0500 Received: from outbound20-2.nyc.untd.com [64.136.20.160] by mitvma.mit.edu (IBM VM SMTP Level 430) via TCP with SMTP ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:44:48 EST X-Comment: mitvma.mit.edu: Mail was sent by outbound20-2.nyc.untd.com Received: from outbound20-2.nyc.untd.com (smtp01.nyc.untd.com [10.140.24.121]) by smtpout02.nyc.untd.com with SMTP id AABABQM9SAQQFVUS for (sender ); Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:43:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 20878 invoked from network); 28 Jan 2004 03:43:04 -0000 Received: from dialup-65.56.111.23.dial1.austin1.level3.net (HELO localhost.localdomain) (65.56.111.23) by smtp01.nyc.untd.com with SMTP; 28 Jan 2004 03:43:04 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <001601c3e4cc$baaa7360$0c0fa8c0@srts.co.uk> <005301c3e4d2$242fe6d0$0300a8c0@main> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-ContentStamp: 9:4:3678546415 Message-ID: <200401272148.31491.picdude@narwani.org> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 21:48:31 -0600 Reply-To: pic microcontroller discussion list Sender: pic microcontroller discussion list From: Picdude Subject: Re: [EE:] PICLIST SPECIFIC VIRUS ALERT To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: <005301c3e4d2$242fe6d0$0300a8c0@main> Precedence: list X-RCPT-TO: Status: U X-UIDL: 371856024 Wow, you guys are lucky, if you got only a half-dozen ... I got over 200=20 yesterday, and over 900 today!!! All have a readme.zip file, and I'm on=20 dial-up .... arrrggghhh! Apparently this new virus (Novarg, I believe?) was discovered yesterday,=20 speads itself via email, and will allegedly record keystrokes. Most=20 interesting of all is that it will perform denial-of-service attacks agai= nst=20 www.sco.com . I'm still looking into the specific details, but slashdot = has=20 some info. Interestingly, I use independent email addresses for each mailing list I'= m on=20 (piclist, car clubs, etc), and it seems to have found a bunch of these. Cheers, -Neil. On Tuesday 27 January 2004 06:36 am, Olin Lathrop scribbled: > I've gotten probably a half dozen of them since around noon yesterday.=20 > They were obviously viruses, so I've just been deleting them. I just g= ot > another > > one to my PIClist address: > > Received: from 194.129.230.253 (7host.com) by mail.embedinc.com ; 200= 4 > > JAN -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads .