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    Red face Heads up!!! Fake MS security update!!!

    Here's another one to look out for!!!

    <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article/0,,10_986251,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article/0,,10_986251,00.html</a>

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    Latest virus waring from our network supervisor
    The latest virus claims to be the security patches for Outlook and IE.
    Only download security patches directly from Microsoft, never use the
    files that arrive in an E-mail!!!

    Win32.Gibe trojan, worm Win32/Gibe is a buggy mass-mailing worm that
    utilizes Microsoft Outlook and the SMTP to propagate. The email
    pretends to be an official message from Microsoft Corp. carrying the
    latest version of a security update for Internet Explorer and MS
    Outlook/Express. The attachment name is: q216309.exe If the
    attachment is executed, the worm will drop 4 files into the Windows
    directory and execute them: WinNetW.exe, BcTool.exe - mass-mailing
    components GfxAcc.exe - Backdoor Trojan listening on port 12378
    q216309.exe - copy of itself A DLL is also dropped into the System
    Directory: vtnmsccd.dll - copy of itself The worm creates the file
    02_N803.dat in the Windows directory to store any email addresses
    collected from the local system. The following registry modifications
    are also made:
    HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run \LoadDBackUp =
    "C:\WINDOWS\BcTool.exe"
    HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run \3Dfx Acc =
    "C:\WINDOWS\GFXAcc.exe" This will cause the backdoor trojan and the
    mass-mailing component to execute upon Windows startup. The worm
    creates and uses the following key to store some SMTP and other
    information: HKLM\Software\AVTech\Settings And leaves an ID:
    HKLM\Software\AVTech\Settings\Installed = "... by Begbie"
    SusieQ

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