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Important News about the Novarg virus
Virus Alert
The W32.Novarg.A@mm virus is a mass-mailing worm that is very active on the Internet. While we are currently taking measures to protect our Email users, you can protect yourself by identifying and deleting emails with Novarg characteristics. Please do not report these emails as Spam.
Note: Your computer should not be infected by this virus unless you open a corrupted attachment.
What to look for:
Emails infected with the Novarg virus have, thus far, been approximately 30-35KB in size and have exhibited the following characteristics:
# Subject line: Hello
# Hi
# Test
# Status
From line:
Contains spoofed addresses - which means that the name that appears in the "From" field is probably not the real sender.
Body:
# Tends to be unreadable; gibberish. You may also see the following message: "The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment".
Attachment file extensions:
# .zip (most common)
# .bat
# .cmd
# .exe
# .pif
# .scr
Known attachment file names:
# body (.zip, .bat, etc.)
# readme
# file
# message
# text
# jasrjx
# dajtl
# document
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I received the darn thing in my email, but luckily I deleted off before opening it. Thank goodness.
Important News about the Novarg virus
Virus Alert
The W32.Novarg.A@mm virus is a mass-mailing worm that is very active on the Internet. While we are currently taking measures to protect our Email users, you can protect yourself by identifying and deleting emails with Novarg characteristics. Please do not report these emails as Spam.
Note: Your computer should not be infected by this virus unless you open a corrupted attachment.
What to look for:
Emails infected with the Novarg virus have, thus far, been approximately 30-35KB in size and have exhibited the following characteristics:
# Subject line: Hello
# Hi
# Test
# Status
From line:
Contains spoofed addresses - which means that the name that appears in the "From" field is probably not the real sender.
Body:
# Tends to be unreadable; gibberish. You may also see the following message: "The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment".
Attachment file extensions:
# .zip (most common)
# .bat
# .cmd
# .exe
# .pif
# .scr
Known attachment file names:
# body (.zip, .bat, etc.)
# readme
# file
# message
# text
# jasrjx
# dajtl
# document
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I received the darn thing in my email, but luckily I deleted off before opening it. Thank goodness.
