Posted on 11-3-2002

New Virus For March02

Spread by email. The email uses a clever piece of 'social engineering' to
trick you into running it - claiming to be a microsoft update file that
will fix all known security problems with IE and Outlook.

Email reads...

securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.gibe@mm.html describes
this file - its a worm that does a mass mailing and may be used to give
outsiders remote access to your machine.

This is the first paragraph of the infected email:

Microsoft Customer,

this is the latest version of security update, the update which eliminates
all known security vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer and MS
Outlook/Express as well as six new vulnerabilities, and is discussed in
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-005. Install now to protect your computer
from these vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could allow an
attacker to run code on your computer.

.........end of virus email...........

Don't run anything attached to such emails, or any unknown email with an
attachment.