Well, I got hit with it. First virus I've been infected with in two years.
I knew my machine was acting funny yesterday (lots of disk access without
anything running) but repeated scans with Norton revealed nothing. Even
when I updated the virus defs, still nothing. Apparently this one can't be
detected unless you run the virus scan from safe mode (at least in win98).
I got really suspicious when I dialed the internet and the connection
monitor showed me sending lots of data, hmmm...

So a big sorry to anybody that might have received it from me. Here's a
link to more info and removal instructions if you need them:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.novarg.a@mm.html

-Denny


Wow, you guys are lucky, if you got only a half-dozen ... I got over 200
yesterday, and over 900 today!!!  All have a readme.zip file, and I'm on
dial-up .... arrrggghhh!

Apparently this new virus (Novarg, I believe?) was discovered yesterday,
speads itself via email, and will allegedly record keystrokes.  Most
interesting of all is that it will perform denial-of-service attacks
against
www.sco.com .  I'm still looking into the specific details, but slashdot
has
some info.

Interestingly, I use independent email addresses for each mailing list I'm
on
(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.
> They were obviously viruses, so I've just been deleting them.  I just got
> another
>
> one to my PIClist address:
> > Received: from 194.129.230.253 (7host.com) by mail.embedinc.com ; 2004
> > JAN

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