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day, viruses are passed through the Internet with intention to harm
as many machines as possible. Our only defense against these viruses
are awareness and anti-virus programs.
At Fairleigh Dickinson University, we update our machines and servers
regularly to protect our environment from harm. We also publish
critical notifications when applicable outlining new viruses on
the Internet. In order to keep your computer from virus attacks,
our advice to you is to scan through your e-mail and your hard drive
periodically.
How To Protect Your Computer From Viruses?
- Never open e-mail with attachments, if you are not familiar
with the sender.
- If you get an attachment from someone that usually does not
send you files, check with them about the e-mail before opening
it.
- Have anti-virus software installed for the purpose of scanning
through your e-mail and your computer.
- Update your virus definitions on a regular basis.
- Always update your virus definitions after a virus warning has
been sent to the campus.
- Delete any e-mail attachments that you did not specifically
request.
For More Information About Virus Software
- symantec.com
- The Symantec Corporation anti-virus homepage, contains announcements,
tools, and up-to-date information about viruses.
- Mcafee.com - McAfee
Corporation homesite offers virus information and anti-virus software.
- Vcatch.com
- VCatch is a free tool which can be used to protect your computer
from web viruses. VCatch can be used with E-mail application,
Web based E-mail, ICQ, or one of the new file-sharing programs
(Napster, Gnutella etc.).
Virus Alerts
The chart below lists virus alerts from the past. The older alerts
on this page will soon join the currently archived pages. If you
would like to report an occurrence of a new virus, please send email
to fdutac@fdu.edu. Most viruses listed can be identified and removed
by the virus definition file versions shown on the chart. Updating
your software to the latest version will also protect you from viruses
released earlier, because the higher number includes all the information
from previous versions.
W32.Fishinflu@mm
More info:
Symantec
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Win2000/95/98/Me/NT/Server2003/Vista/XP:
W32.Fishinflu@mm is a mass-mailing worm that
spreads through removable drives and by sending messages
to mIRC users.
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W32.Ackpra.A
More info:
Symantec
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Win2000/95/98/Me/NT/Server2003/Vista/XP:
W32.Ackpra.A is a worm that spreads by copying
itself to all available network shares and removable drives.
It may also download potentially malicious files on to
the compromised computer.
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Trojan.Peacomm
More info:
Symantec
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Win2000/Me/NT/XP :
Trojan.Peacomm is a Trojan horse that drops a driver program
file to download additional security threats.
Trojan.Peacomm reportedly arrives as an attachment to a
spammed email with the following characteristics:
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W32.Jalabed.B@mm
More info:
Symantec
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Win2000/XP/Server2003:
W32.Jalabed.B@mm a mass-mailing worm that sends a copy of
itself to email addresses gathered from the compromised computer.
The worm also spreads through mIRC.
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W32.Banwarum.G@mm
More info:
Symantec
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Win2000/XP/Server2003:
W32.Banwarum.G@mm is a worm that spreads through file-sharing
networks such as KaZaa, Morpheus, eDonkey2000, LimeWire, and iMesh.
It also downloads a .zip file from a predefined Web site and sends
it as an email attachment to addresses that it gathers from the compromised
computer.
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W32.Kidala.E@mm
More info:
Symantec
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Win2000/XP/Server2003:
W32.Kidala.E@mm is a mass-mailing worm that opens a back
door on the compromised computer. It also lowers security settings
and exploits remote vulnerabilities.
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OSX.Leap.A
More info:
Symantec
McAfee
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MacOS X 10.4:
OSX.Leap.A is a worm that targets installs of Macintosh OS
X and spreads via iChat Instant Messenger program.
Note: It infects files on the Macintosh
OS X version 10.4. The worm will execute on Intel Macs, but cannot spread
to other systems
from these machines.
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W32.Blackmal.E
More info:
Symantec
McAfee
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Win2000/XP/Server2003:
W32.Blackmal.E@mm is a mass-mailing worm that attempts to spread through
network shares and lower security settings. On the third day of every month
it attempts to rewrite files with certain extensions with custom text.
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W32.Sober.X
More info:
Symantec
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Win2000/XP/Server2003:
W32.Sober.X is a mass-mailing worm that has spread on campus.
It uses its own SMTP engine to spread and lowers security
settings. It sends itself as an email
attachment to addresses gathered from the compromised computer.
The email may be in either English or German.
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W32.Zotob.E
More info:
Symantec
| Win2000/XP/Server2003:
W32.Zotob.E is a worm that opens a back door and exploits the Microsoft Windows
Plug and Play Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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W32.Esbot.A
More info:
Symantec
| Win2000/XP/Server2003:
W32.Esbot.A is a worm that spreads by exploiting the Microsoft Windows Plug
and Play Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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W32.Beagle.CE
Trojan.Tooso.L More info:
Symantec
| Win9x/NT/ME/2000/XP:
W32.Beagle.CE@mm is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine to send
out copies of Trojan.Tooso.L.
The worm also opens a back door on
the compromised computer on TCP port 80.
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| W32.Sober.O
More info:
Symantec
Network Associates
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Win9x/NT/ME/2000/XP:
W32.Sober.O@mm is a mass-mailing worm that sends itself as an email attachment.
The worm arrives via an email message written in either
German or English with a randomly named attachment, which,
if executed, will email itself to all entries found on
the machine.
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