Warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users (possibly virus)

Wed Mar 3 16:52:21 UTC 2004

it has gotten to the point for me that i am looking for a whitelisting 
option on my firewall/a-v gateway instead of a blacklisting one for 
attachments.

Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:

>>>Erm is it me or are the writers of Bagle and Netsky determined to keep morphing 
>>>their code to outwit the virus scanners.. is this a new trend in virus writing - 
>>>beat the systems by evolving your code quicker than the security firms can 
>>>release updates?
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>>new trend in that it started only a decade ago?
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> Perhaps I'm only following this as its affecting us more, but I dont recall a 
> time previously when I've had so many viruses hitting us and getting thro our 
> scanners with nothing we can do about it. I dont recall seeing viruses with 
> variants as high as 'j' before, especially in the relatively short time since 
> the previous variants were out
> 
> Seriously, drop some references if I'm off-track.. its just my perception and 
> I'm not an expert at all with viruses...
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> Steve
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>>>On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>>>
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>>>><http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_101071.htm>
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>>>>W32/Bagle.[hij]@MM
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>>>>--On Tuesday, March 02, 2004 20:07:17 -0800 "william(at)elan.net" 
>>>><william at elan.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>I have just seen emails (several different kinds) pretending to be sent
>>>>>from 3 of my isp domains to users of those domains warning users that
>>>>>their email account would be disabled and asking to open a .pif
>>>>>attachment. I know largest ISPs probably have expierenced this but I
>>>>>believe what I  have seen today means they are after ISPs (or possibly
>>>>>just after any  domains with number of email addresses under them) of all
>>>>>sizes right at  the moment. All emails we received from the same source
>>>>>ip - 129.59.206.187 Please check your email base for what looks like the
>>>>>following
>>>>>(in the examples I changed everything to elan.net, actually every isp
>>>>>domain received different example of this, only first one is exact).
>>>>>
>>>>>Example 1:
>>>>>---
>>>>>From: management at elan.net
>>>>>To: xxxxx at elan.net
>>>>>Subject: Email account utilization warning.
>>>>>
>>>>>Hello  user  of Elan.net e-mail server,
>>>>>
>>>>>Your e-mail account has  been temporary disabled  because  of unauthorized
>>>>>access.
>>>>>
>>>>>For further details see the  attach.
>>>>>
>>>>>Best wishes,
>>>>>   The Elan.net team                               http://www.elan.net
>>>>>---
>>>>>
>>>>>Example 2:
>>>>>---
>>>>>From: administration at elan.net
>>>>>To: xxxx at elan.net
>>>>>Subject: Warning about your e-mail account.
>>>>>
>>>>>Dear user of "Elan.net" mailing system,
>>>>>
>>>>>Our main mailing server  will be temporary  unavaible  for next two days,
>>>>>to  continue receiving mail in these  days you  have  to  configure  our
>>>>>free auto-forwarding service.
>>>>>
>>>>>Further details  can be  obtained  from attached  file.
>>>>>
>>>>>Cheers,
>>>>>   The Elan.net team                             http://www.elan.net
>>>>>---
>>>>>
>>>>>Example3:
>>>>>---
>>>>>To: xxxxx at elan.net
>>>>>Subject: Warning about your e-mail account.
>>>>>From: administration at elan.net
>>>>>
>>>>>Dear user, the management of Elan.net mailing system wants to let you
>>>>>know that,
>>>>>
>>>>>Some of our clients complained  about the spam (negative e-mail content)
>>>>>outgoing from your e-mail account. Probably, you have been  infected by
>>>>>a  proxy-relay trojan  server. In order to keep  your  computer safe,
>>>>>follow the instructions.
>>>>>
>>>>>Please, read  the attach for further details.
>>>>>
>>>>>The Management,
>>>>>     The  Elan.net team                             http://www.elan.net
>>>>>
>>>>>
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