[pmmail-list] Win32.Netsky.C Worm and PMMail

[Ralph Cohen]

Hi Marty,

I don't know anything specific about the Norton antivirus software, but
the following page on the Symantec site provides a couple of different
ways to get the latest virus definitions.

> http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/download.html


Ralph

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 03:35:50 -0800, Marty Rimpau wrote:

>Hi, Ralph, I've been having trouble with my live update of my Norton
>2001, and even though the virus definitions say 2-25, and the number of
>virus definitions is 66041, I wish I could be sure that my definitions
>are up to date, and I'm afraid to download the intelligent updater, as
>I don't want to duplicate any definitions, as what has been happening
>since January twenty-ninth, is, that when the live update goes out to
>look for definitions, if there are any, it hangs, and running live
>update the first time in a session from a cold re-boot causes an error,
>but I can then run it fine afterwards.  I didn't know how to uninstall
>live update with out getting the warning about several programs being
>registered with it, so I ended up uninstalling, and reinstalling 2001
>twice, and it seems to be fine now, but with the older 1.6 version of
>the live updater, so that's why I'm worried that my virus definitions
>might not be up to date, because I've seen different people's Nortons
>do different things.  Sorry for straying off topic, but if this virus
>is a new outbreak, shouldn't more definitions be updated during the
>same day?  Thanks, but I've been frustrated with this since January
>twenty-ninth.  
>On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 01:40:21 -0500, Ralph Cohen wrote:
>
>>While most virus/worms seem to target MS Outlook files as the source
>>for gathering email addresses to mail out copies of themselves, a new
>>one looks for them in all sorts of places including the *.msg files
>>used by PMMail.  The Win32.Netsky.C worm spreads through email and P2P
>>networks and it looks on  all available drives - including mapped
>>drives - for email addresses and directories/folders in which to place
>>copies of itself.  There's more information at
>>http://www3.ca.com/virusinfo/virus.aspx?ID=38406 and other anti-virus
>>software sites.  PMMail Windows users and OS/2 users on mixed P2P
>>networks should be sure their virus definitions are up to date.
>>
>>Ralph Cohen
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