Offtopic - virus alert

[Guest guest]

Hi - we've been seeing this virus at Dartmouth. It's a really nasty one so I

thought I'd pass this alert along. As a rule, never open an enclosure if you

don't know who is sending it, and use caution opening one from someone you do

know. One of the devious hallmarks (or payloads) of some virii is copying the

virus and sending to members of your addressbook. If I receive an enclosure

from a friend or colleague that I'm not expecting, I often email them back and

ask if they meant to send it to me.

Barbara

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Affects computers running the Windows operating system:

This worm (virus) arrives as an email message with the following content:

Subject: The subject of the email will be random, and will be the same as the

file name of the attachment in the email.

Message: The message body will be semi-random, but will always contain one of

the following two lines (either English or Spanish) as the first and last

sentences of the message.

Spanish Version:

First line: Hola como estas ?

Last line: Nos vemos pronto, gracias.

English Version:

First line: Hi! How are you?

Last line: See you later. Thanks

Between these two sentences, some of the following text may appear:

Spanish Version:

Te mando este archivo para que me des tu punto de vista

Espero me puedas ayudar con el archivo que te mando

Espero te guste este archivo que te mando

Este es el archivo con la informaci=n que me pediste

English Version:

I send you this file in order to have your advice

I hope you can help me with this file that I send

I hope you like the file that I sendo you

This is the file with the information that you ask for

The file names under which this threat have been submitted are:

SirC32.exe

Tech Specs and Financials.doc.com

Additional information may be found at the following world wide web location:

http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.wormmm (DOT) html