posted 09-21-2001 06:38 AM                  

Rest asurred that ProwlerOnline is a very safe site because it resides on a Linux server and maintains a high level of security! Do be cautious about visiting websites that are unknown or are not on top of things! PCs using Windows NT or Windows 2000, along with Windows NT running IIS 4 and IIS 5 servers are most vulnerable. Infected computers may continue to flood the Internet and most networks with worm generated messages (even without you being aware of it).

The e-mail portion of the virus arrives with the attachment readme.exe. Upon execution it drops the file, mepxxxx.tmp in the c:\windows\temp directory. The file is an eml format email. This temp file contains the file attachment sent by the worm emails. The typical name for this file attachment is readme.exe but there have been reports of file attachments with the extensions .wav and .com.

This is a non destructive virus who's only mission is to create massive amounts of data to cause traffic jams on the internet, so please be patient if you see delays in webpage loading!

More information can be found at the Symantec Web Site , or the Mcafee Website .

Just trying to keep everyone updated,
Mike Krehel
ProwlerOnline.com

posted 09-21-2001 06:58 AM                  

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posted 09-21-2001 01:02 PM                  

Trey

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(your welcome Larry)False alarm, it's gone now.

posted 09-21-2001 01:13 PM                  

The point I was trying to make is that it's basically non destructive to an average users computer.

posted 09-21-2001 03:34 PM                  

Richard

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posted 09-21-2001 11:09 PM                  

Eventhough Mike has performed updates on his server, their are other web admins who might not have done this yet, these other server can infect clients visiting their sites. The best protection for people running Microsoft operating systems is to read the following URL by Microsoft. It will direct you to all the updates needed to protect your personal computer, or Microsoft server.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/topics /Nimda.asp

I have been fighting viruses for many years and I'd say this is by far the hardest virus to get rid of. The delivery options it has are many. I forgot to apply one update and one server was hit and it spread it to all others on my network, and some clients that connect to my servers.

Trey, eventhough Symantec says the only 100% way to get rid of the virus is to rebuild, with hard drive re-format, a good server admin should be able to get rid of the virus with help from Microsoft and Symantec.

It is unfortunate that in todays computer world all, end users and server admins, have to be very aware of virus protection.

The only thing worse than viruses are spam.

I'm not chicken little, just helps to have a good umbrella sometimes.

Hope all computer are running well. Glad Mike is on top if it.

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