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Re: New Worm - W32.Mimail.J@mm (PayPal)


From: Tracey Losco <tracey.losco () NYU EDU>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:12:56 -0500

There's a good removal tool at:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.mimail.removal.tool.html

If you've already been hit with it.

Regards,

Tracey

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Tracey Losco
Network Security Analyst                security () nyu edu
ITS - Network Services          http://www.nyu.edu/its/security
New York University                     (212) 998 - 3433

PGP Fingerprint: 8FFB FE47 6156 7BF0  B19E 462B 9DFE 51F5


At 8:34 AM -0500 11/18/03, Gerry Sneeringer wrote:
Hardly a whisper on this one so far.  It's very similar to the "I"
variant which also pretended to be from Paypal (we sent out a
warning about bogus PayPal messages last week to FYI).  The
message looks really fishy, so most of our gullible users appear
to be recognizing it for what it is.

-G

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Krizi Trivisani wrote:

 Hello,

 This one just starting slipping by our email virus filters... just
 thought I'd give a heads-up.

 http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.mimail.j () mm html

 Krizi

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