Educause Security Discussion mailing list archives

Re: flurry of email attachments


From: "Schmidt, Eric W" <erschmid () IUPUI EDU>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:27:30 -0500

You're probably seeing the latest virus, W32.NOVARG.A AKA:  MyDoom.
Make sure you're A/V is up to date right away.



________________________________ 
Eric W. Schmidt, CISSP, CISM, DABFE
Information Security Officer
Indiana University School of Medicine
office:  317-278-8751
pager:  317-312-2252
email:  erschmid () iupui edu
 

-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Discussion Group Listserv
[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Kevin Shalla
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 9:24 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] flurry of email attachments

Has anyone else gotten a flurry of email attachments (message.zip,
readme.zip, document.exe, document.zip) today?  Today I got about a
dozen, and several returns, of forgeries of me as the sender.


Kevin Shalla
Associate Director of Information and Technical Services University of
Illinois at Chicago Office of Admissions and Records (MC 018) 1200 W
Harrison, Room 2131 Chicago, IL 60607-7161
(312) 996-1231
kshalla () uic edu

**********
Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion
Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/.

**********
Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at 
http://www.educause.edu/cg/.

Current thread: