WARNING! Virus pretending to be from PBW

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Captain Blood:
I got one, but it sent from an admin@ on the e-mail site I use. Luckily I don't trust attachments that have little explantation. Whoever that Bugger is he's pissed me off though. Anyway a warning that it might come from a source that seems to be your e-mail admin.

Confirmed. I had 2 come in the other day and Ididn't open them because I didn't believe that I was getting something from the Admins as Yahoo. They both just had some mumbled letters for the subject then it was from admin@yahoo. But they are safely in the deleted box now. This must be going around as our exchange server at work is being affected by some kind of virus that we can't figure out how it got in in the first place. We'll get it though. Nasty little bug shutting out email system down.

[Baron Grazic]

The Virus is called "Mimail.A".
The Subject usually says "Your Account" followed by strange letters but variations will appear.
The Sender is usually "admin@your_domain"

Most virus checkers should have a patch to detect this virus by now, so I would suggest updating your virus checkers.

Our work has had this virus almost 100 times in the past 2 days, but our MailSweeper has stopped all instances of it.

Edit - For more details, check out the following link http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/defau...virus_k=100523

[ August 12, 2003, 00:10: Message edited by: Baron Grazic ]