SC - Re: Welcome and Any help for the Irish?

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- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Orin The Late" <orinthelate at uswest.net>
To: "PCWorks" <pcworks at imagicomm.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 12:28 PM
Subject: Verified password stealer alert


> I don't usually send these things on, but I went to the McAfee site and
> verified the info.
>
> Sorry for the bandwidth, but I HATE password stealers!!!!
>
> Orin
>
>
> > Subject: Re: AOL PASSWORD STEALER VIRUS ALERT!!!
> >
> >
> > > There is a particularly mean Trojan Horse Virus going around called
> > APSTrojan, details:
> > >
> > > APStrojan.qa is a trojan discovered on January 18, 2000. On 1/25/00,
> AVERT
> > raised its risk assessment from Low to Medium Risk. It primarily infects
> > Windows 98 systems, though it may also infect Windows 95 if the file
> > MSVBVM50.DLL is present.
> > > Please Note: This trojan has been reported by several users of the
> America
> > Online Internet service. For this reason, AVERT researchers suspect it
has
> > been distributed by spam email sent to AOL users.
> > >
> > > APStrojan.qa is a password stealer designed to attack America Online
> > client software to determine user account passwords. It will then
attempt
> to
> > send the stolen information to the author of the trojan.
> > >
> > > APStrojan.qa has been distributed as an attachment to an email with
the
> > subject line "hey you." The attachment has been widely reported with the
> > name "MINE.EXE."
> > >
> > > Important: If your system has been infected with APStrojan.qa, AFTER
> > removing the trojan, be sure to choose a new password for your AOL
> account!
> > >
> > > Here's McAfee's Link to clean it up:
> > >  http://www.mcafee.com/viruses/apstrojan/
> > >
> > > Send this to every AOL user you know!!
>
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