Re: Another new worm???

[restfulwaters () YAHOO COM SG (PS Howe)]

I found some information at:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2589845,00.html
Do take a look.
The worm does not do much damage but it is a pain.

--- Jason Legate <jlegate () ALIENCHICK COM> wrote: > It
would appear that this worm was borne from the
> discussions on bugtraq a
> while back.  Just about a month ago, an email was
> sent regarding this
> exact issue.  I think someone ran with it, and
> released it in the wild, as
> my company was hit by it as well.  From preliminary
> looks, it seems like
> it plays with the filesystem, peeks/pokes at the
> registry, and logs on to
> irc.  Has anyone else seen this?
>
> -j
>
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 09:49:54AM -0400,
> Studio1057 () AOL COM wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > This morning I am getting a lot of mail with
> attachments. Trends are:
> > No from and to appears in the header
> > Attachments have .SHS extension (??!!)
> > the subject is either :Jokes", or "Funny: Jokes
> text", or "Life stages".
> > Funny text does not show the attachment. The rest
> are .txt.shs extensions,
> > the filename is the subject line but in all caps.
> > Any ideas? I am planning to clip a copy of all the
> "variations" I'm getting
> > to check out what is going on. Unless of course
> somebody else has already
> > done so in which case I am anxiously awaiting what
> you guys cme up with.
> > Thanks,
> >
> > LK
>
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