Watch out for the Shockwave virus/trojan!

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Tue Dec 05, 2000 1:22 pm

Hi,
Just to let you guys know, if you receive an email with the subject line, "A great Shockwave flash movie", delete it and don't open the attached EXE file (creative.exe). It's a trojan email virus, and it has shut down our company email server by crashing it within one hour.

Onced open, it will seach for your address book and send copies to all those folks. It will then send you a new copy every ~5 seconds, and send another one out to the folks in your address book. So your sent email box will fill up with the same email over and over again.

[Edited by Executioner on 12-05-2000 at 03:17 PM]

Underclocked · Post by **Underclocked** » Tue Dec 05, 2000 2:45 pm

Southwest Missouri State University, that is. If you are in email contact with anyone there, be wary of mail coming from them.

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Tue Dec 05, 2000 3:33 pm

More info about the trojon:
http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=98909&

Free utility to clean your personal system:
http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusenc ... HOCKWAVE.A

blade · Post by **blade** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 7:20 am

Up for all to see and be warned.

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Watch out for the Shockwave virus/trojan!

It has hit SMSU