ah wizzo you may have a virus !!!

[Sparki]

I just recieved this mail note form my mail team:


BarrysWorld Virus software on smtp.barrysworld.com has reported
that you were sent an E-Mail from wizzo@multiplay.co.uk, containing the
: W32/Nimda.A@mm virus in the readme.exe attachment.

The subject of the E-Mail was "uimage006image001image022image018image003image010image022image015defaultimage028image019image022imag e031image012image005image00".
The E-Mail containing the virus has been quarantined to prevent further damage.


Best regards

The BarrysWorld Team

[Sparki]

And for some reason it has been sent to my hotmail account that also confirms the presence of nimba

[afty]

This can't be true. Multiplay UK (Ltd.) use only the most recent builds of OpenBSD for their systems, and religiously apply security updates and patches, only as officially approved by the Ministry of BSD, and under papal direction.

It's clear to me that either someone forged the SMTP headers making you think it was Wizzo, or that perhaps one of the older machines at MPUK HQ was turned on for testing. Version 8.3 and older versions of OpenBSD were vulnerable to Nimda because they came with IIS turned on by default, but more recent versions have turned this off, and replaced IIS with the more advanced PWS, which has the advantage of running PERL out of the box.

Please contact your nearest approved vendor if you require further information or the latest updates for your Ministry approved flavour of BSD. If you are running the Windows flavour be advised that all releases are thoroughly pre-checked for bugs and security updates and there is no reason to panic.


OK panic now.

[Big Giant Head]

We're looking into it now, if you look at the headers you'll see it wasn't actually from Wizzo just the return address was set to wizzo@multiplay.co.uk

and its FreeBSD not OpenBSD on the mpuk servers afty ;)

[Sparki]

I thought you guys would be well up on this type of thing and thought it might be someone playing games.

Cheers

[KermitTheFrag]

LOL afty ;)

[Joey[kins]]

np - it looks like one of the mpuk staff has nimda joy and has the mailing list address in his book...

joy

[afty]

Originally posted by - Big Giant Head -
and its FreeBSD not OpenBSD on the mpuk servers afty ;)

If that was only discrepancy you spotted in my post then I pity your offspring :)

[Big Giant Head]

hehe I was skim reading it this morning, and would face the wrath of nik if I dared allow a mention of OpenBSD instead of FreeBSD to pass ;)

The joys of posting while trying to avoid letting the boss see you browsing the forums ;)

[KermitTheFrag]

lol

<troll target="nik>

but OpenBSD is far better than FreeBSD ...

</troll>

[Zeuseh]

lol