Computer Virus Alerts
Xiren
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posted 06-11-99 11:46 AM PT (US)
I promise! This is not a hoax! I've gotten 3 warnings so far about these nasty new viruses, and updated my virus definition yesterday. If you haven't done the same, please do so for your own good. If you don't have a virus protection software, my advice to you is that never open any file attachments sent to you via e-mail until you get one. (There are too many nasty things spreading around via internet nowadays.)

This new virus is Worm.ExploreZip. When this virus is triggered, it searches all your drives and selects a series of files to destroy based on file extensions (including .h, .c, .cpp, .asm, .doc, .xls, .ppt.)
To learn more about this virus, please check this out:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/worm.explore.zip.html

Another new virus named PrettyPark.Worm is not as disastrous as Worm.ExploreZip but could be potentially more dangerous as it allows the virus distributor to obtain the system information of your computer, including your ICQ identification numbers, ICQ nicknames, email address, and Dial Up Networking username and passwords.
For more information, please check this out:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/prettypark.worm.html

suizette
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posted 06-11-99 8:00 PM PT (US)
Related News.
http://www.chinesenewsnet.com/SocDigest/Technology/Fri_Jun_11_08_21_45_1999.html
suizette
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posted 06-12-99 2:41 PM PT (US)
http://www.chinesenewsnet.com/MainNews/Headline/Sat_Jun_12_09_30_25_1999.html

WHY
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posted 08-23-99 6:47 AM PT (US)
A new virus - WOBBLER.

It will arrive on e-mail titled "CALIFORNIA". IBM and AOL have announced that it is VERY powerful, more so than Melissa, there is no remedy.

WHY
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posted 08-23-99 6:49 AM PT (US)
Someone is sending out a very desirable screen-saver, a Bug's Life -"BUGGLST.ZIP". If you download it, you will lose everything!!! Your hard drive will crash and someone from the Internet will get your screen name and password! DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!!! IT JUST WENT INTO circulation yesterday, as far as we know. Please distribute this message. This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it. This information was announced yesterday morning from Microsoft. Please share it with everyone that might access the Internet. Once again, pass this along to EVERYONE in your address book so that this may be stopped.

Also do not open or even look at any mail that says "RETURNED OR UNABLE TO DELIVER". This virus will attach itself to your computer components and render them useless. Immediately delete mail items that say this.

Others to avoid - DO NOT RUN and DO NOT LAUNCH THEM at all! There is no remedy or cure. They will completely wipe out all your data in your harddisk and destroy all your emails!

The viruses are:-
1) buddylst.exe
2) calcu18r.exe
3) deathpr.exe
4) einstein.exe
5) happ.exe
6) happy99.exe
7) japanese.exe
8) keypress.exe
9) kitty.exe
10) teletubb.exe

Do pass on this important message to all your friends and business associates.

WHY
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posted 08-23-99 6:52 AM PT (US)
If you want to try BUGGLST.ZIP, I can send it to you -- believe me, it will crash your computer, I tried it. ^_^
Xiren
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posted 08-23-99 8:33 AM PT (US)
WHY:

You have BUGGLST.ZIP ?! but it is reportedly a hoax, so is California/WOBBLER.
Could you send me BUGGLST.ZIP? Thanks!

Check them out:
http://www.datafellows.com/hoaxes/bugglst.htm
http://www.datafellows.com/hoaxes/wobbhoax.htm

As for your list of viruses:
1) buddylst.exe - HOAX
6) happy99.exe - REAL, but it's a worm, not a virus.
8) keypress.exe - REAL.
10) teletubb.exe - HOAX.

Couldn't confirm the rest.

gummy
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posted 08-23-99 9:17 AM PT (US)
warning
gummy
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posted 08-23-99 9:20 AM PT (US)
what happened?

i post the first message but i make a spelling mistake, then i want to make a correction but later i cannot find my first message???

RS
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posted 08-23-99 9:24 AM PT (US)
It's a bug with this software. I guess you were posting while I was deleting a message (I didn't see any new message at that time), and your message was overwritten by your "warning" message. Could you repost your earlier message? I'm sorry!
RS
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posted 08-23-99 1:24 PM PT (US)
I'd received a BUGLST.ZIP, I don't know whether it is the same as BUGGLST.ZIP -- in case someone made up one.

-- RS no dash

RS
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posted 08-23-99 1:26 PM PT (US)
Xiren:
Are you really going to try it?

RS (no dash)

RS
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posted 08-23-99 1:29 PM PT (US)
RS'

I may send you the ZIP file if I can find it in the deleted emails.

RS



BTW, that's not a bug, but a FEATURE!!! ^__^
RS
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posted 08-23-99 1:46 PM PT (US)
Yes, could you? Thanks, RS!

RS' (BTW, it's a prime(') not a dash(-).)

RS
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posted 08-23-99 1:56 PM PT (US)
RS':

Sorry, could not have the file recovered.
So you are really going to try BUGGLST.ZIP...

RS (without prime @__@)

RS
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posted 08-23-99 2:12 PM PT (US)
No, I'm not gonna try it with my computer. I'm not as demented as you might think after all. ^o^ Besides, anyone can write a program that crashes the computer. (It doesn't take a good programmer to write one, does it? ^_^)

If I can get the program, I'll submit the alleged "virus" to one of those AntiVirus labs for them to take a look. I think that it's more likely a copycat act that some loser out there did after seeing this e-mail hoax, and I doubt that it's a Trojan horse at all, or as destructive as described in that e-mail.

RS'

gummy
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posted 08-23-99 3:14 PM PT (US)
RS and RS'

why you both people use the same accounts? is it possible to leave you guy's name what what ever you have to define yourself? and dont use the same ID to talk , i am confused now.

btw, the deleted message---

thanks to give us a warning.

RS
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posted 08-23-99 3:30 PM PT (US)
Hahahaha... It's fun talking to myself. ^_^
gummy
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posted 08-23-99 3:46 PM PT (US)
RS:

are you Xiren? and please dont confuse me more...........

wuji
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posted 08-23-99 4:01 PM PT (US)
For administration purposes, both CC and Xiren use RS. However, there is a slight difference between CC version of RS and Xiren version of RS in that Xiren is actually RS': CC's derivative.

.....And I think one of the possible identities of CC is e^x, and when you differentiate him with respect to x, you get Xiren, e^x. They are the same: both are RS, yet they're different: CC is RS, and Xiren is RS'.

Get it?

gummy
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posted 08-23-99 4:07 PM PT (US)
what do you mean "e"

by the way, so CC is Xiren's antiderivative, rught???

wuji
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posted 08-23-99 4:09 PM PT (US)
No, not e, but e^x.
gummy
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posted 08-23-99 4:16 PM PT (US)
then yo umust be any constant number
wuji
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posted 08-23-99 4:25 PM PT (US)
then yo umust be any constant number

Did you mean to say "then you must be any constant number"?

Well, I'm 0 as in "最討厭的鴨蛋".

ChBjo
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posted 08-23-99 11:05 PM PT (US)
無忌:

你是鴨(蛋), 昔人是鵝(蛋)那我不就是雞(蛋),
不,我是鴿蛋^_^

ChBjo
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posted 08-24-99 2:31 AM PT (US)
還有, 真不愧是談天說地, 連Computer Virus Alert
這種題目都可以扯到這種地步
suizette
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posted 09-10-99 12:56 PM PT (US)
【多維新聞】

病毒警報﹗網民注意﹐一種名為「霍亂」(Cholera)
的電腦病毒周三被發現。雖暫時未有用家系統遭感
染的報道﹐但為免它像較早時肆虐全球的「瑪莉莎
」和CIH病毒那樣一發不可收拾﹐有關方面正嚴密
監視﹐一旦發現感染案例將立即發布「高危警報」。

發現該病毒的美國組織Computer Associates International
(CAI)已在其網站(http://www.cai.com)上出示
殺毒程序供網友免費下載。

新病毒是CAI的專家在一名德國黑客的網頁上發現
的﹐它與早前曾造成可觀損失的Worm.ExploreZip
電腦蟲非常相似﹐以電郵附件的形式通過互聯網傳
播。

如果網友收到一份以黃色笑臉(Smiley)為標記的
電郵﹐千萬不要貿然打開名為Setup.exe的附件﹐
那是自動解壓安裝程序。該附件的圖標與視窗9x及
NT系統的通用安裝程序圖標非常相似﹐僅色調略微
不通。倘若不留神將該附件打開﹐將看到如下英文
內容﹕
「Cannot Open file: It does not appear to be a valid archive.
If you downloaded this file, try downloading the file again.」

病毒會自動進入視窗9x和視窗NT系統﹐發作時按照
用家保存的電郵地址發出一份自身拷貝﹐一變十、
十變百﹐迅速將網絡服務商的電郵服務器「脹死」。
(本留言經 RS' 重排)

RS
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posted 09-11-99 3:53 PM PT (US)
Free AntiVirus Program
Computer Associates InoculateIT Personal Edition:
http://www.cai.com/antivirus/personal/

One may try to bypass the Registration process with this links:
ftp://ftp.cai.com/pub/marketing/ipe/IPESetup95.exe
ftp://ftp.cai.com/pub/marketing/ipe/IPESetupNT.exe (2.4MB)
(I am not sure whether they still work.)


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