*CRITICAL* Update Your Antivirus!

[Jonbo298]

SYMANTEC IS warning that the mail servers of the nation will be clogged by a mass mailer worm called Evaman today.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Evaman has been given a critical rating by Symantec despite few examples, as yet, turning up in the wild.

The trojan horse uses a false email address to generate messages with the usual attachment that carries the code. If users are dumb enough to open the attachment, their PC will be turned into a zombie sending out dozens of new messages.

Symantec senior technical director Tim Hartman says Evaman has the potential to be every bit as bad as Mydoom.

It is hard to see why this one will be any different from the other Trojan types. The heading has things like failed transaction and failure deliver. It affects Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP machines. When it first runs it sometimes opens a notepad page. It then selects an smtp server using a hardcoded list. These include smtp.rcn.com, outgoing.verizon.net, smtp.comcast.net, mail.mindspring.com, smtp.email.msn.com, smtpauth.earthlink.net, smtp-server.nc.rr.com, smtp1.attglobal.net, mailhost.att.net, mail.optonline.net, mail.peoplepc.com, smtpout.bellatlantic.net, mail.verio.net, smtp.netzero.net,and smtp.prodigy.net.

If it cannot connect to a server it queries the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Account Manager\Accounts\SMTP Server to find a mail server.

Then it logs onto email.people.yahoo.com, and collects email addresses from the search results and replicates itself. Symantec has released a patch for it

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17007

Don't hesitate. UPDATE IT BEFORE ITS TOO LATE

*edit*
It sounds like what could've been big has been downplayed by Symantec because it hasn't gotten the steam it needed.

[Typhoid]

Instead of updating...why not just dont open the email?




EDIT: And where do we obtain said patch?

[Jonbo298]

I'm giving the warning because some people open attachments from people they know, then they get infected and it goes downhill from there.

And I couldn't have blatantly said it any better on how to prevent yourself from getting it. ANTIVIRUS UPDATER

[Typhoid]

I know i realised the update thing.

So this question is probably answered, but does it say its an email from a person you know, or is it just a junk-mail adress?

And to get it straight, you HAVE to open the attachment right?

[Jonbo298]

Yeah, have to open attachment for hell to break loose.

[Typhoid]

I havent gotten any of said emails yet. But im worried about my mom...she uses this computer, and is as stupid as a sack of hammers when it comes to computers.

She'd see a denial email, and say " I dont remember this." And instead of deleting it, she opens it.

Then, upon seeing the attachment she would open it.

Im screwed.


( And i think i had this happen to me a few months ago, all i remember is at the bottom right of my screen a little pop-up-ish box kept coming up every second saying " Synmantec email sent to ________________" i solved it by unplugging my internet. The problem hasnt persisted, and my computer is virtually normal.)