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Worm masquerades as note from IT staff
A new mass-mailing virus, which disguises itself as a file sent by a computer user's network administrator, began infecting systems Friday.
The worm, which is being dubbed "mimail," attempts to exploit a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that allows a script to be executed by an infected computer. The worm then tries to use that script to mass e-mail itself, potentially clogging mail servers or slowing down networks, according to antivirus company Symantec.
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JSR
on August 3, 2003 2:23 PM |
the gang and i went round and round about me not having an isp.................in doing some research, i came accross the fact that i was a private network, part and parcel of a block purchase, with false/generic identification numbers to protect it's network.............and, it would be difficult if not impossible to penetrate this scenario...................is this true? |
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