Very important.
| From: | Padraic Tynan | Date: | Tue, 24 Apr 2001 21:29:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | Very important. | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Hi.
Yesterday an email-virus entitled Emanuel was sent out over this list, and I am not sure by who. It
came in the form of Emanuel.exe, and had an icon resembling that of a standalone flash projector
file (pink diamond with a white multi-pointed asterisk-type thing in the middle).
This virus appears to be a backorifice or netbus style virus, and adds something to a system file
that makes it so that *every* time you try to launch a program, it launches "Wintask.exe",
which is *not* an official task, despite the name. It puts a green ICQ flower in your taskbar, and
if you click it, a button pops up that says "Nunca <bla bla> esta button". The
<bla bla> is because I forget the word for "push" in spanish, and I'm not about
to open this program again -- It translates to "NEVER PUSH THE BUTTON" -- and trust me,
*don't*, this, i have found, is what activates the virus.
I may have lost several weeks of work to this virus, and I advise you all to watch out, as it was
likely sent inadvertantly.