[pchelpers] Re: Virus


Tim H

W32 Magistr.39921@mm
z19 attachment

I just got hit also with this virus from I think someone
on (pchelpers)

Thought you would like to no the name of.

Roger Miller

"A Friend is a Person that will return a message when he can."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim H." <tekphobia@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 8:46 PM
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: Virus


>
> I'd be willing to bet $1,332 dollars (give or take) that it was Klez.
> Something you could do is save the attachment and run Symantec's
fixklez.com
> tool to see if it detects it as such. BUT, I wouldn't go playin around
with
> it as it's a nasty one!
>
> -Tim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott McNay" <wizard@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 3:15 PM
> Subject: [pchelpers] Re: Virus
>
>
> >
> >
> > Is that the name of the file or the name of the virus?  I did a search
> > for Wmqk.exe, and found nothing, but if that's just a file name, then it
> > won't mean anything.  Virus name would help a lot more.
> >
> > Also, many virus scanners use heuristics, which means that they'll find
> > files that *might* have a virus.  If this is the case, you may have run
> > into something that's new enough that there's no information generally
> > available online for it.
> >
> > --Scott.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Dave and Kazz
> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 7:17 am
> >
> > > I was sent a virus twice today, my virus checker spotted it
> > > so I was able to delete them without it harming my PC.  The
> > > name is: Wmqk.exe does anyone know what it is.
> >
> >
>
>

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