Forum Archive Index - September 2001

["Jeremy" <jeremy@electrosilk.net>]

No.  This is a new variant "W32/Nimda  worm"  or  the  "Concept  Virus  (CV)  v.5." that spreads by email, by disk shares and by web sites.  It tries to deface web sites as a side effect.

 

Basically, if you get it in your network you are cactus.  If you even look at it in email preview, you are cactus.  If you look at a copy on an infected web page you are cactus.

From: DR

My reading of this one is that it is directed at IIS servers (like Code Red) and therefore stand alone personal computers are safe

D.