| September 16, 2003 Green Apple
has received notice of the new Windows virus Dumaru. Dumaru is a mass-mailing
worm which installs a trojan horse program onto an infected machines, allowing
remote control of the infected computer. Emails with the worm can be
identified with the subject line: "Use this patch immediately !" and with the
spoofed sender address of "Microsoft <security@microsoft.com>". If you
encounter such an email, clicking on the attachment will infect your computer.
If you believe your computer is infected and could use help, please do not
hesitate to give us a call. As always,
Green Apple users are welcome to bring in their machines for virus scans and
virus removals.
Related Links
For more
information on the Dumaru virus, please see
http://www.greenapple.com/support/security/pc-sentry/dumaru.htm
Green
Apple has taken steps to block inbound email having Dumaru’s signature, but
all users are urged to implement practices and techniques for lowering
exposure to viruses. For more information on viruses in general and prevention
techniques, please see
http://www.greenapple.com/support/library/virus-faq.htm
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