From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #257 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Tuesday, October 24 2000 Volume 05 : Number 257 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: melissa virus [mde@stanfordalumni.org] Re: Alloy: melissa virus [Slarvibarglhee ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 23 Oct 2000 09:06:03 -0700 From: mde@stanfordalumni.org Subject: Alloy: melissa virus Do any of you remember what the signs of hte Melissa virus were??? I just transferred a file from my computer to disk to anohter computer and it said that it cleaned out a virus named melissa...what does it do? I've been having trouble with disks being unreadable... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 22:50:14 +0100 From: Slarvibarglhee Subject: Re: Alloy: melissa virus You can get info on all kinds of viruses from http://vil.nai.com/vil/default.asp i.e the Network Associates site. The following info relates to one variant of Melissa. All the others have similar characterisitcs. Slarv Profile Virus Name W97M/Melissa.a@mm Risk Assessment High Virus Characteristics This is a macro virus for Word97 documents and templates, and is also famous for its use of email propagation using MS Outlook! This virus was first posted to several newsgroups on March 26, 1999. This virus will infect Office97 systems which have been updated to SR1 update and above. This virus uses a self-check method to check for a setting in the registry to test if the system has already been infected. This virus also sets macro security level to low security in Office2000. If the value HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Word\Security\"Level" is not null, the code instructions will disable the "TOOLS/MACRO/SECURITY" menu option in Word2000. Otherwise Word97 menu option "TOOLS/MACRO" is disabled. This virus creates an Outlook object using Visual Basic instructions and reads the list of members from the address book. An email message is created and sent to the list of first 50 recipients created with the subject "Important Message From " Application.UserName, with a body text of "Here is that document you asked for ... don't show anyone else ;-)". The active infected document is attached and the email is sent. The content of the document is a list of pornographic web sites. This virus creates an entry in the registry- HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\ "Melissa?" = "... by Kwyjibo" Comments inside the macro virus which are never shown: 'WORD/Melissa written by Kwyjibo 'Works in both Word 2000 and Word 97 'Worm? Macro Virus? Word 97 Virus? Word 2000 Virus? You Decide! 'Word -> Email | Word 97 <--> Word 2000 ... it's a new age! mde@stanfordalumni.org wrote: > Do any of you remember what the signs of hte Melissa virus were??? I > just transferred a file from my computer to disk to anohter computer and > it said that it cleaned out a virus named melissa...what does it do? > I've been having trouble with disks being unreadable... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:45:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Elaine Linstruth Subject: Alloy: Releases Available I'm not sure which of you can't get these, but it appears that (most of) the USA can obtain 12x12 and something called Hyperactive Collection from Amazon.com. Both of mine arrived today. They both say "Made in Holland," and the prices are $10.99 for Hyperactive and $16.49 for 12x12. Interestingly, 12x12 has a "low price" sticker on it. (I dunno about you guys, but $16.49 is not a low price for a CD in the States.) Although, I have to remind myself, these are both officially "imports." So there you have it -- get it while the gettin's good! - -- Elaine Linstruth Palmdale, CA, USA "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 "The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security." -- FBI Director Louis Freeh, 1993 ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #257 ***************************