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Titolo: OT - LEGGERE PERICOLOSISSIMO VIRUS


Subject: Virus
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:15:53 +0100
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Wednesday December 1 4:02 AM ET 
Computer Virus Tears Through Cos.
By MOLLY WOOD Associated Press Writer 
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Experts scrambled to warn thousands of computer
users that a familiar and damaging virus has struck scores of
companies and could be slumbering in their e-mail inboxes. 
The Mini-Zip virus tore through computers on Tuesday, devouring files
and crippling e-mail systems, anti-virus analysts said. It was
expected to renew its assault today as unsuspecting users logged on. 
Dan Schrader, vice president of new technology at Trend Micro in
Cupertino, Calif., said he fielded complaints of significant problems
from four Fortune 500 companies and scores of smaller companies. 
Sal Viveros, a marketing manager for Santa Clara-based Network
Associates, which makes anti-virus software, said 20 large
corporations had been affected by Tuesday evening. 
The experts refused to release the names of affected companies. 
Mini-Zip's parent bug, Worm.Explore.Zip, struck last summer. It was
considered the most destructive virus since the Melissa outbreak in
the spring. 
``The last time this virus came along it affected tens of thousands -
maybe hundreds of thousands of computers - and caused millions of
dollars in damage,'' Schrader said. ``It's malicious and
fast-spreading. We consider this to be high-risk.'' 
It wasn't clear whether the problem had been reported to the
government-chartered CERT Coordination Center - formerly the Computer
Emergency Response Team - at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
There were no warnings on its Web site early today. 
Anti-virus experts said the bug gets loose from an infected system as
a seemingly friendly reply to a clean e-mail sent via the Microsoft
Outlook, Outlook Express or Exchange browsers. 
The virus intercepts the original message and automatically sends
itself as a response - even changing the subject line from, for
example, ``Work Meeting'' to ``Re: Work Meeting.'' 
The body of the message reads: ``Hi (recipient's name)! I received
your e-mail and I shall send you an e-mail ASAP. Till then, take a
look at the attached zipped docs. bye.'' 
The e-mail contains an attachment called ``zipped-files.exe.'' If a
user double-clicks on the attachment, the virus is set loose in the
new victim's system. 
It then destroys a series of files in a computer's hard drive by
replacing them with empty files. 
Anti-virus experts cautioned users against opening e-mails if they do
not know the sender or why they were sent. They said the virus could
be fought with updated anti-virus software
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I Santi sono individui che hanno fatto di tutto pur di finire sui
calendari.
Vinicius de Moraes
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 new victim's system.
se mi trovate un non "newbie" che "doppioclicca" su di un attachment
siffatto - per giunta eseguibile ! - io mi iscrivo a forza italia....

Roma, 2.XII.1999
Scusa Giampaolo,
non si potrebbe avere una traduzione italiana? Mi perdo un po'...