Re: virus in email RTF message MS OE almost disabled

[Gary Baribault <gary () baribault net>]

Oh, man, now you've made him cry!

Gary B



On 11/22/2010 03:16 PM, Thor (Hammer of God) wrote:
> You know, every time I start to get a bit of hope for what looks like
> an upward trend of businesses and organizations taking security
> seriously, I see crap like this.  Your organization is a Medicare
> prescription contractor with a national network of 61,022 contracted
> pharmacies, and not only are you running unpatched versions of old
> OS's and opening email attachments because they "look OK," but you
> have to post to Full Disclosure asking help for trivial virus
> detection and removal advice?   Now that everyone on FD knows that you
> are vulnerable and that you open email attachments, you've probably
> just caused the organization to be pwned 9 ways from Sunday.
>
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> To answer your question, call a professional and have them do it.  And
> in the future, don't send out emails like this from your organization
> email announcing the state of your security.  That's what Hotmail is
> for. 
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> *From:*full-disclosure-bounces () lists grok org uk
> [mailto:full-disclosure-bounces () lists grok org uk] *On Behalf Of
> *Mikhail A. Utin
> *Sent:* Monday, November 22, 2010 7:18 AM
> *To:* full-disclosure () lists grok org uk
> *Subject:* [Full-disclosure] virus in email RTF message MS OE almost
> disabled
>
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> Hello,
>
> Opening looking OK email message in my MS OE I've very likely got new
> kind of virus, which exploits MS Office flaw recently announced.
> Immediately after, my OE started consuming huge memory when I switched
> between folders or messages. I've not seen any process in Task Manager
> taking up to 1 GB memory (physical is 512M). I did not find any newly
> installed executables either. When I shut down OE, the computer works
> fine.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thank you
>
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>
> Mikhail
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