Is there a virus going around on yahoo, hotmail, and msn recently?

Question

Brcause my brother got a email from his co-worker and it said to not open mail that said Web Report and it said that windows and Norton reported this which I bet microsoft created it with norton.

Answer 1

Another "Web Server Report" Virus Email

12/06/06

Permalink 04:29:53 am, by dave Email , 347 words, 239 views English (US)

Categories: Security, Virus Info, Virus Emails

Another "Web Server Report" Virus Email



I just received another Win32.Warezov.dc virus email.



This time the spoofed from address was:



[e-mail]



There is no website, that I could find, for scholzes.com. The email I received originated from a block of addresses that used by an internet provider in another part of the country, so it is unlikely that this message was actually sent from anyone at this domain.



The body of this message is:



Mail server report.



Our firewall determined the e-mails containing worm copies are being sent from your computer.



Nowadays it happens from many computers, because this is a new virus type (Network Worms).



Using the new bug in the Windows, these viruses infect the computer unnoticeably.

After the penetrating into the computer the virus harvests all the e-mail addresses and sends the copies of itself to these e-mail

addresses



Please install updates for worm elimination and your computer restoring.



Best regards,

Customers support service



Any way if you see anything like this, don't open it, just DELETE IT.



Here is the header information from this message (my info has been changed slightly, but the rest remains the same).



Return-path:

Envelope-to: [e-mail]

Delivery-date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:25:29 -0700

Received: from unknown (HELO gcopghgraia) (70.182.174.151)

by 70.182.174.65 with SMTP; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 10:24:23 -0000

Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 10:16:23 -0600

From: [e-mail]

Mime-Version: 1.0

To: [e-mail]

Subject: Mail server report.

Content-Type: multipart/mixed;

boundary="-----------20CC820E3832E623"



-------------20CC820E3832E623

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit



Mail server report.



Our firewall determined the e-mails containing worm copies are being sent from your computer.



Nowadays it happens from many computers, because this is a new virus type (Network Worms).



Using the new bug in the Windows, these viruses infect the computer unnoticeably.

After the penetrating into the computer the virus harvests all the e-mail addresses and sends the copies of itself to these e-mail

addresses



Please install updates for worm elimination and your computer restoring.



Best regards,

Customers support service



-------------20CC820E3832E623

Content-Type: APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM; name="Update-KB6062-x86.zip"

Content-transfer-encoding: base64

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Update-KB6062-x86.zip"

Answer 2

Any of those "Warnings" like that are scams. Check out Snopes at http://snopes.com



There is no such thing as an "undetectable" virus, and this is doubly true when it comes to email viruses. There may be viruses that haven't been detected YET, but nothing that can't be detected.



All the "biggie" email services scan for viruses, gmail, yahoo, hotmail etc.



If there were legitimately a new virus that was spreading rapidly, by the time one of these emails could possibly start circulating, the big players in the antivirus game would already have detections available for the virus, and your email from one of these services would be safe.

Answer 3

Heyy xx!xx

Ooooeerr.

Dont worry there are always emails like that. Just delete them

then u wont get virus's.



Hope i helped xD

Danii x!x

Answer 4

There are always e-mails like that going around, so it's wse to always block SPAM mail and only open e-mail from people that you know or are expecting to get from someone.

Answer 5

I very much doubt it - it will just be chain mail.



basically if it says to send it on anywhere in the email then its a fake chain mail but if not then its likely to be real

Answer 6

i guess so since less and less people are useing it