Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:58:30 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Denise Ryan Subject: Virus Warning REEEZAK Worm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Since there is so much concern about virus problems I thought I'd share this email warning from my office's tech support team. Beware of Christmas email greetings with this description. Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2001 - CA eTrust Security Alert Information on the W32/REEEZAK Worm Computer Associates (CA) has assigned a medium-to-high risk to Reeezak, a malicious computer worm (also known as W32/Reeezak.A@mm, W32/Zacker.C@mm and W32.Maldal.C@mm) which propagates through email by masquerading as a Macromedia Flash holiday greeting. Reeezak arrives as an email with the subject line: "Happy New Year" and a message body text: "Hii I can't describe my feelings But all i can say is Happy New Year :) bye" It includes the attachment: "Christmas.exe" Upon execution, Reeezak spreads by sending itself to every email address in the infected computer user's Microsoft Outlook address book. The worm also has the ability to disable selective keys on the infected user's computer keyboard and delete all the files found in the Windows System Directory, rendering the computer inoperable. CA issued a Virus Alert about this new threat and to announce that a new signature for eTrust InoculateIT has already been released by our eTrust global antivirus researchers. Additional information is available at http://ca.com/virusinfo. Denise Ryan Washington, DC League of Conservation Voters ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================