Email worm eats security software

02 Jan 02 17:08 by CDFreaks in category Uncategorized

A new year and some new worms are already out.

And there will dissable your security software.

Computer users returning after the New Year break are in danger from the latest mass mailing email worms.

The ZaCker (or Maldal.D) worm can delete antivirus software protection and a variety of critical system files from the PCs of unwary users.

Typically, the mass mailing worm arrives by email with the subject line ZaCker and an executable, infected attachment which weighs in at 27KB. It uses Outlook to spread itself to everybody in the Outlook address book.

More information about ZaCker can be found Here

Over the holidays another mass mailer, called Sheer.A (or Zoher) did the rounds. This takes advantage of an IE exploit which means an infected attachment could be opened simply by reading or previewing a message.

More information on Sheer.A can be found Here

So time to get your antivirus software updated to keep those bad worms out of your pc.

Source: The Register

5 Comments on Email worm eats security software

Nila
Posts: 691
Posted on: 02 Jan 02 19:27
Talking of security holes in IE. Have any of yourself found yourself in this situation: You go to a website that has a pop up window that links to some stupid porno site. The next second there is a dialer program installed on your system and it is open and trying to dial? I'm on Win2k with IE6 and this has happened to me quite a bit. The program has copied itself to my hard drive and installed itself without me authorising it at all. Anyone else had this problem?
guest
Posts: 15284
Posted on: 02 Jan 02 20:32
sorry no, try posting that in the forum maybe someone has an answer.
DoMiN8ToR
Posts: 11304
Posted on: 02 Jan 02 20:47
Yes, and that's were the forum is for, reactions here, questions there !
Redneck
Posts: 2027
Posted on: 02 Jan 02 23:35
JS.Exploit ? allowing your IE to run to much is dangerous, restrict it more from dangerous ActiveX etc...
guest
Posts: 15284
Posted on: 03 Jan 02 01:05
You can avoid a lot of problems using McAfee's v.5&6 using Internet Filter. Just go to the popup-laden site and let all the popups pop. Right-click and get their address or URL from the Properties Sheets. Type the address or URL in the appropriate VirusScan form for Internet Filter. (Just be careful that you don't wipe out your access the the site you do want to access.) Then when the popups start, you don't download or see the content of the offending sites. Under any circumstance, I can't believe anyone reading anything on CDFREAKS wouldn't have major virus protection.
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