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Today we received 4 panicky emails from system administrators and management telling us about the Windows virus spread by email with the subject lines, Here you have . And, sure ...
- 09-10-2010 #1Linux Enthusiast
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The "Here you have" virus
Today we received 4 panicky emails from system administrators and management telling us about the Windows virus spread by email with the subject lines, Here you have. And, sure enough, I received the email. No, I deleted it and didn't suffer. But yes, sadly, I have to use Windows at work.
My question is, did anyone running a safe OS (Linux, BSD, Solaris, OSX, or anything else but Windows) receive it and explore it, investigate the link, etc?
- 09-10-2010 #2Linux Engineer
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Yea, it was in the news, it downloaded a seemingly valid PDF file which harvested all email addresses from Outlook and emailed itself to all contacts.
Edit: BBC News - Sex movie worm spreads worldwideLast edited by Segfault; 09-10-2010 at 11:54 PM.
- 09-13-2010 #3forum.guy
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I saw a number of alerts about it, but didn't receive any of the infected emails. It's hard to believe that so many computer users are oblivious to the many dangers constantly lurking on the web, especially when they've been told repeatedly by different sources not to take the bait.
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→ new members/users: read this first | new member faq
→ no private messages requesting computer support - post them on the forums!
→ please use the "report post" button to alert our forum admins to problematic posts rather than responding to them yourself.
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