[Gllug] Yet another M$ worm!

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:23:12AM +0100, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> Another worm exploiting the stupidity of most M$ "software" users has been 
> flooding my mailboxes - 
> 
> http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32gibef.html
> 
> This one seems to be a little more sophisticated than most, and appears to be 
> a patch issued by Microshaft!  It also disables some firewalls and 
> "anti-virus" software.  Expect your e-mail to really slow down over the next 
> few days!

Yes, this one does lack the basic spelling mistakes and grammatical
errors which make the other ones stand out a mile. I suspect a great
many more unsuspecting end users will be fooled by this one.

Don't get too complacent. Linux is just as vulnerable to this type of
attack.

Rich.

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