ADMINISTRIVIA: VIRUS WARNING

["Lynn H. Nelson" <lhnelson@raven.cc.ku.edu>]

It's that time again. The new worm is called W32.Yarner.A@mm and
was reported 19 February. Symantec rates its current spread as
medium (which is pretty fact for twenty-four hours, the potential
damage it can inflice as HIGH, and its potential for spreading
itself as HIGH.

Yarner.A sends itself to all addresses found in the Microsoft
Express address book AND to those found in local files. It
insinuates itself into Windows Notepad.exe and may attempt to
delete all of the files on your computer.

It arrives in the following message form:
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Subject: 
Trojaner-Info Newsletter [Current Date]

Message Body:
Hallo !

Willkomen zur neuesten Newsletter-Ausgabe der Webseite
Trojaner-Info.de. Hier die Themen im Ueberblick:

01. YAW 2.0 - Unser Dialerwarner in neuer Version
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I have already received three such messages, so be careful.

You may find full information about W32.Yarner.A@mm at 

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.yarner.a@mm.html


Lynn