[Cms-moe-list] Fwd(2): [Lan-admins] Urgernt nimda worm

[Bob STEELE(CMS)]

Hi all (again) - See below..


Please note that this virus is nasty - it comes via an e-mail with a blank
title and an attachment with the extension .exe in the file name.

If you get one of these, please delete without opening.

Bob


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We have indication that several machines within SHU have been infected
with the nimda worm. This is a virus potentially as serious as Code Red.
Users running machines with Microsoft IIS need to immediately check that
their machines are not infected and patched against this. If a machine
cannot be patched/checked it needs to be removed from the network.  CIS
will supply more details regarding this later but the situation is serious
enough to warrant this preliminary note.

Information on nimda and protecting against it:

http://www.incidents.org/alert.txt                                              
http://www.cert.org/current/current_activity.html                               
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.nimda.a@mm.html     
http://vil.nai.com/vil/virusSummary.asp?virus_k=99209


Regards 

Ray Gardener
______________________________________________________________________
Liaison/Postmaster,
Sheffield Hallam University
liaison@shu.ac.uk
telephone 0114 225 4926


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