RE: Virus heads-up

North American Network Operators Group
RE: Virus heads-up

From: Mark Persiko
Date: Thu May 04 18:05:48 2000
Symantec has posted a set of antivirus definitions to
a public FTP site, to be used with Norton  Antivirus 
on PC's.  Here is the URL:

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/antivirus_definitions/norton
_antivirus/specdef/

Thanks,
 Mark

- Mark C. Persiko, [email protected]
- MIS Dept, Boulder Valley Public Schools


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Lockhart [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 4:18 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Virus heads-up
> 
> 
> 
> Heads up on a new virus - ILOVEYOU
> 
> I'm sure you've heard about it already, but you may wish to block 
> www.skyinet.net (206.101.197.226) at your borders, as that is 
> where it 
> fetches part of the actual virus code from:
> 
> 132.185.x.y - - [04/May/2000:10:23:14 +0100] "GET 
> http://www.skyinet.net/~y
> oung1s/HJKhjnwerhjkxcvytwertnMTFwetrdsfmhPnjw6587345gvsdf7679n
> jbvYT/WIN-BUG
> SFIX.exe HTTP/1.0"
> 
> Other than that, it looks like just another Melissa.
> 
> Simon
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