Published on July 18, 2001 By Alexandrie In WinCustomize News
Please everyone be carefull

I received today 4 emails with same msg in different language with a file attached. I'm sure it's a new virus.

Here is the msg:
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Hi! How are you?

I send you this file in order to have your advice

See you later. Thanks


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on Jul 18, 2001
Can you give the exact filename of the virus that is attached? Thanks!
on Jul 18, 2001
I also received 2 of these mails today, they appeared to have been sent by Dangeruss, and were named pseudo_ez and TechAmp. I was immediately suspicious, as Russ and I haven't exactly been on speaking terms since the "Skinz" days, and I doubted he would ask my advice on anything!
Let me stress that these e-mails are NOT from dangeruss, just made to LOOK like they are.
Needless to say, I didn't open the attachments, I just deleted them, as you should do if you receive one. There is obviously someone who is bent on harming the skinning community, as can be witnessed by the recent attack on LotsOfSkins.com,
Where someone abused the delete function and removed many skins.
BE ON YOUR GUARD!!
on Jul 18, 2001
There is a post from Russ on Devart concerning this:

http://forum.deviantart.com/?fid=general&tid=45060
on Jul 18, 2001
Oops - my apologies. He also posted here - guess I should have checked here first...
on Jul 18, 2001
Could someone please forward me one of the emails if they get it. Wanting to test our AntiVirus at our company against it. themurkworks@yahoo.com.!
on Jul 18, 2001
Usualy i think the Delete Button is made to Delete emails that have attachements from people you dont know . But thats just me , oh well
on Jul 18, 2001
coreg2

2 of them was actually really good friends of mine
on Jul 19, 2001
I received the same e-mail on 7/18/01. Norton Antivirus didn't flag it coming through my email program. I just deleted it, like any unsolicited attachments.
on Jul 20, 2001
I received one of these msgs, as well...though I didn't recognize the sender the attachment was a .pif file pretending to be a .zip
on Jul 20, 2001
Yeah, I got 4 of them as well, didn't recognize the sender though.
on Jul 22, 2001
It's not just happening to you guyz in the skinning community. I got the same messages, and I have a website about Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA. My sender was 'Tony'. I just deleted them. Just to warn, its an all-around virus.
on Jul 22, 2001
I thought I had escaped this one but then, yesterday I got mailed a different virus/worm combo that comes in two consectutive emails. It's the W95MTXdr virus and came from someone in Argentina who had asked me about where to send winamp skins.

And then today I started getting the W32sircam virus that this thread is about. The sender is unknown to me and the subject line is "Capital Gain 99". In both cases my virus scanner did not catch it.

I don't believe I've been infected but I'm still trying to determine that for sure. What a waste of time!
on Jul 23, 2001
Hi, I received one today... Sender unknown with a different attachment-name again...
on Jul 23, 2001
eek, yeh i get alot of mails from the "Worms Community" (hehe, nothing to do with bad .worms! i'm referring to a game), anyhow people send me their maps and whatever and i evaluate them all and have to check .zips and stuff for details - Anyway, i got 5 of these damn emails, 1 from a person i know and the other 4 from some-one i didn't ... ah well just adding my little bit here btw.

I searched google.com for any information about this as soon as i got the email virus's/atachments, but there wasn't any info to be found... =/

Maybe you guys will keep us posted?
on Jul 24, 2001
www.theregister.com has good info..... it's an extremely virulent virus and is causing major havoc.... it's even made national news in the UK
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