Another virus said to hit the Internet when the US returns from July 4th celebrations


Notice how often these viruses are released over long weekends when people are perhaps a little less on guard after a happy few days off... and there is a backlog of email ready to download. Here's a report from Melbourne's Age newspaper. Why is it said to hit businesses? Well, we know the main operating system found on most corporate desktops, don't we? Here's a link to get more information. Beware of any attachment, even sent by friends, which ends with .exe or .scr You've been warned!

New virus tipped to hit businesses

Sydney
July 5, 2004


A new internet virus is expected to spread rapidly around the world when businesses return to work today.

The virus is tipped to clog mail servers, cause severe computer slowdowns and wreak financial damage.

The mass mailer worm, dubbed Evaman, was only discovered yesterday, but has been likened to the MyDoom worm that cost businesses hundreds of millions of dollars in January.

The Sydney Morning Herald says it comes only days after online security firms uncovered a trojan designed to harvest internet banking details.

The paper says like MyDoom, Evaman uses a false email address to generate messages with an attachment that carries a virus.

By opening the attachment, people can unleash the virus onto their computer, where it automatically starts sending out dozens of new messages.

Computer security firm Symantec's senior technical director Tim Hartman says Evaman has the potential to be every bit as bad as Mydoom.

Mr Hartman's warned that messages carrying the virus usually have subject headings like failed transaction and failure delivery.

- AAP

Posted: Mon - July 5, 2004 at 07:38 PM         |

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