--- Quote --- A very clever mass-mailing worm is spreading rapidly across the Internet.
Fizzer (w32.fizzer@mm) has many different components, each timed to trigger different processes, making it quite difficult to contain.
The worm spreads via e-mail and includes its own SMTP engine to bypass any security your e-mail client may have. Fizzer also spreads via Kazaa, a popular file-sharing application.
Wolverine of Ambush!:
There was a email being sent around saying an email with the heading of "It takes guts to say Jesus" something along those line.... was a virus...
IT IS A HOAX... trendmicro, mcafee, symantec...they all say so.. just communicating....
Boomslang:
esafe has disabled it's auto update for 3.0 the free one. You now have to go to the web site and download it..
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php
Here is a free A/V with auto updates
[Edited on 11-30-2003 by Boomslang]
Boomslang:
This has to rank up there as one of the biggest screw-ups of all times as far as anti-virus software makers go. Anti-virus vendor McAfee is scrambling to contain the damage from a faulty definition update that incorrectly flagged hundreds of legitimate software programs as W95/CTX, a low-risk Windows 95 virus that was first detected in 2004.
The erroneous .DAT file (4715) was shipped late on March 10 with definitions for a wide range of new malware threats, but when the update was installed, it quarantined or deleted several widely deployed applications, including Microsoft Excel, Macromedia Flash Player, Adobe Update Manager and the Google Toolbar Installer.
Santa Clara, Calif.-based McAfee acknowledged the gaffe and quickly shipped a new virus pattern file (4716), but for some users the damage was already done.
In a notice posted online, McAfee said the 4715 DAT files caused problems for customers running its VirusScan Enterprise, Managed VirusScan, VirusScan Online, LinuxShield and VirusScan (consumer) products.