[plug] MS Hoax letter

[James Devenish]

In message <sf6c1831.051 at mmtnetworks.com.au>
on Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:04:39AM +0800, Jon  Miller wrote:
> Seem to be getting a lot of MS Hoax e-mails with executable attachments.

Swen/Gibe, probably. UWA threw a few thousand away yesterday, presumably
more today. It's probably on a lot of news sites, but here are vendor
notes:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/news/patch_hoax.asp
http://www.europe.f-secure.com/v-descs/swen.shtml
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.swen.a@mm.html
http://www3.ca.com/virusinfo/virus.aspx?ID=36939
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=100662
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_SWEN.A&VSect=T
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32gibef.html
http://www.messagelabs.com/viruseye/info/default.asp?virusname=W32%2FGibe%2EE%2Dmm


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