Re: VIRUS Alert for the LIST -- MIDRANGE-L

We use the IFS to store excel, and word97 documents, one of our users recieved 
an
excel document which was infected with Laroux.*, which is a macro virus. Once 
you
infect yourself with Laroux it will spread to any excel document you open which
is just what hapened. Every time the infected user would open a document she
would infect that document, and when a clean user came along and opened an
infected document she was infected and so on...
Since it was mapped as a network drive we used mcafee web based virus scanner to
locate and clean the macro virus.

boothm@earth.goddard.edu wrote:

> What no one still has answered though:  Can any known virus attack a
> mapped network drive?  If so, can it clean off the IFS?
> _______________________
> Booth Martin
> boothm@earth.goddard.edu
> http://www.spy.net/~booth
> _______________________
>
> John Hall <jhall@hillmgt.com>
> Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> 12/26/1999 12:48 PM
> Please respond to MIDRANGE-L
>
>
>         To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Re: VIRUS Alert for the LIST
>
> As a precaution we turned off ALL attachments to ALL company mail last
> week.  This has resulted in a few inconveniences -- but --  It would
> prevent us from receiving bad e-mail such as this one.  You may want to
> consider it.  Keep in mind that the body of the message is a text
> attachment so you will probably want to let that one through.  Everybody
> seems to be trying to write the "killer" y2k virus!
>
> John Hall
> Home Sales Co.
>
> Rick DuVall wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> >     If you happened to notice an entry attributed to me earlier today,
> dated
> > 12/23/99 10:32,  then you have seen the results of a virus.  I was sent
> a
> > mail message by (I assume) another innocent and upon opening it,  it
> managed
> > to fire off alt LEAST 2 messages to addresses in my address book each
> > containing a considerable amount of (probably) malicious code.
> >
> >     I have run my virus scanner without a hit - if this is the virus
> that
> > Booth referred to then I am probably sunk along with any of you who
> opened
> > the aforementioned entry posted to MIDRANGE-L ...
> >
> >     My apologies if this turns bad for anybody - I had nothing to do
> with it
> > except as an unsuspecting host.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Rick
> >
>
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Datrek Professional Bags, Inc.
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