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Subject: RE: NIMDA Virus - Anyone been affected by it ?
From: "Sean Porterfield" <sporter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 17:09:07 -0400
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Had one Win98 pc hit this morning (user hadn't updated virus dats recently
enough).  Took us a few hours to get through the cleanup (because I hadn't
read the directions on
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.nimda.a@mm.html first.)

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chuck Lewis
>Subject: NIMDA Virus - Anyone been affected by it ?
>
>
>Hi folks,
>
>Been doing quite a bit of reading on the NIMDA (Admin spelled backwards,
>it CAN gain Admin level access apparently...) virus, attempting to sort
>between fact and fiction and either way, it seems to be one heck of a
>virus. Infects a bunch of Windows OS's, etc. and attempts to exploits a
>bunch of different vulnerabilities...
>
>Chuck

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