Hey guys...

Has any one here noticed a very sharp increase in virus activity out there???

Specifically, besides the typical Klez and BugBear viruses, I am now
seeing an incredibly unbelievable rise in historical viruses hitting the
scene- all at once!

In the last week I have had resurgences of Snow White, Nimda,
Backdoor.trojan, Hybris, BanTrans, Magistr, Sircam, VBS, Kak, and even
Chernobyl! Yes, I had one with Chernobyl the other day!

I have seen all of these in the last week, along with many of the
variations of the same ones (Nimda A, Nimda B, Nimda c, etc).

I had one PC yesterday that had 8 different viruses on it at the same time!

This is in addition to the normal viruses of today (Klez, ElKern, BugBear, etc)

Anyone else seeing this???

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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:23:56 GMT, user@user.com (Ghost) wrote:

>Hey guys...
>
>Has any one here noticed a very sharp increase in virus activity out there???
>
>Specifically, besides the typical Klez and BugBear viruses, I am now
>seeing an incredibly unbelievable rise in historical viruses hitting the
>scene- all at once!
>
>In the last week I have had resurgences of Snow White, Nimda,
>Backdoor.trojan, Hybris, BanTrans, Magistr, Sircam, VBS, Kak, and even
>Chernobyl! Yes, I had one with Chernobyl the other day!
>
>I have seen all of these in the last week, along with many of the
>variations of the same ones (Nimda A, Nimda B, Nimda c, etc).
>
>I had one PC yesterday that had 8 different viruses on it at the same time!
>
>This is in addition to the normal viruses of today (Klez, ElKern, BugBear, etc)
>
>Anyone else seeing this???

I don't see any systems other than those of our household and family
and friends. We have seen Klez and BugBear recently, but a lot of
Magistr here at home.

Tom

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dlnt@4ax.com>,
tom__macintyre@hotmail.com wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:23:56 GMT, user@user.com (Ghost) wrote:
>
> >Hey guys...
> >
> >Has any one here noticed a very sharp increase in virus activity out there???
> >
> >Specifically, besides the typical Klez and BugBear viruses, I am now
> >seeing an incredibly unbelievable rise in historical viruses hitting the
> >scene- all at once!
> >
> >In the last week I have had resurgences of Snow White, Nimda,
> >Backdoor.trojan, Hybris, BanTrans, Magistr, Sircam, VBS, Kak, and even
> >Chernobyl! Yes, I had one with Chernobyl the other day!
> >
> >I have seen all of these in the last week, along with many of the
> >variations of the same ones (Nimda A, Nimda B, Nimda c, etc).
> >
> >I had one PC yesterday that had 8 different viruses on it at the same time!
> >
> >This is in addition to the normal viruses of today (Klez, ElKern,
BugBear, etc)
> >
> >Anyone else seeing this???
>
> I don't see any systems other than those of our household and family
> and friends. We have seen Klez and BugBear recently, but a lot of
> Magistr here at home.
>
> Tom

I just find it so odd because all of these viruses are old!!! Most of
them I havent even seen for like a year or better! Chernobyl was thought
by SARC to be nearly extinct!

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"Ghost" <user@user.com> wrote in message
news:user-2410021923560001@1.0.0.2...
> Hey guys...
>
> Has any one here noticed a very sharp increase in virus activity out
there???
>
> Specifically, besides the typical Klez and BugBear viruses, I am now
> seeing an incredibly unbelievable rise in historical viruses hitting the
> scene- all at once!
>
> In the last week I have had resurgences of Snow White, Nimda,
> Backdoor.trojan, Hybris, BanTrans, Magistr, Sircam, VBS, Kak, and even
> Chernobyl! Yes, I had one with Chernobyl the other day!
>
> I have seen all of these in the last week, along with many of the
> variations of the same ones (Nimda A, Nimda B, Nimda c, etc).
>
> I had one PC yesterday that had 8 different viruses on it at the same
time!
>
> This is in addition to the normal viruses of today (Klez, ElKern, BugBear,
etc)
>
> Anyone else seeing this???

Yes I have seen quite a bit of old stuff. It seems to me that when Klez or
Bugbear disable the non updated antivirus on some of the computers that I
work on it leaves the door open for many of the older things to come in.
I had a computer a couple of months ago that had 7 different viruses and 3
back doors on it. Needless to say, the computer didn't work very well.
There was a time that an old antivirus would work OK since the virus world
was pointed at floppy disks. With the recent wave of self executing email
viruses I constantly harp to all my customers about using updated antivirus
and regularly checking for MS updates.
AG

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