[muglo] Re: Entourage VIRUS Warning

At 3:01 PM -0400 4/8/04, Eurogarth wrote:

>Mary, they ARE NOT HARMLESS!
>
>The virus was operating from my imac sending out email to people on my list.
>
>Checked with Rogers and they reported out-bound activity when I was in "send
>only" mode as a test... The damn thing even sent an e-mail FROM me TO me...
>Which was the way I knew for sure I was infected.
>
>You may be infected and not know it.



Check here:
<http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/num.nsf/docid/2003082109055811>


----quote----------------------------

Are Macintoshes affected by mass-mailing viruses or worms?

Situation:
You were told or you suspect that your Macintosh is infected with a 
mass-mailing virus, such as Sobig, Klez, Bugbear, Aliz, Goner, 
Badtrans, Sircam or Nimda.

Solution:
  To date, there is only one known mass-mailing worm that can infect 
the Macintosh. This worm, known as Mac.Simpsons@mm, is an AppleScript 
worm that can infect a Macintosh running Mac OS 8 - 9 and cannot 
infect Mac OS X. Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh versions 5 through 9, 
with virus definitions dated July 2001 or later, can detect this worm.

  Some Windows-specific mass-mailing email worms exploit a 
vulnerability in the Windows versions of Microsoft Outlook and 
Outlook Express. The Macintosh versions of Microsoft Outlook Express 
and Entourage do not have this vulnerability.

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Thing is, there have been (AFAIK) zero reports of the Simpsons virus 
showing up for years. So, what you've got going there is still a 
mystery, IMO.

[Note: There has been some talk of a mass-mailing Trojan (involving 
MP3 files) that OS X may be vulnerable to -- but AFAIK, it only 
exists as a "concept", a "potential" vulnerability.]

  Mary





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