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W32.Magistr.24876@mm is DOA!
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Posted by: SKYHN
Earlier, I went to check some email for someone on Outlook Express. No mail on the first account, but the second account had 1 message, and an interesting one at that.
Norton is busy scanning incomming emails with its Email Protection when all of a sudden...BOOM! Up pops the screen "The following email has been found to contain W32.Magistr.24876@mm virus. The file has been cleaned and is no longer a threat." That SOB Became "Dead on Arival".
And what a nasty virus it is:
Deletes the infected file
Erases CMOS (Windows 9x/Me only)
Erases the Flash BIOS (Windows 9x/Me only)
Overwrites every 25th file with the text YOUARESHIT as many times as it will fit in the file
Deletes every other file
Displays the following message(view attachment)
Overwrites a sector of the first hard disk
After its been in your system for about 2 months, on odd days the desktop icons are repositioned whenever the mouse pointer approaches, giving the impression that the icons are "running away" from the mouse:
http://securityresponse.symantec.co....24876@mm.2.gif
Oh Virus scanner, how I love the, let me count the ways...
BTW: This is only the 3rd Virus I have EVER come accross on any PC.
Posted by: Spork Lover
Good deal  Norton isnt all that bad. Not too long ago it stopped a virus I received 32 times through email. I run norton 24/7....I dont care what anyone says about hogging resources..... I dont have a XP1900+ and 768 mb ddr to not put them to use.
Posted by: Darky!
Anyone who even remotely considers open a file attached to an email from somone they don't know, or even somone they do know, without a good explanation, or forwarning, should be classified as an I.D.I.O.T.
Posted by: JANNA
the magistr virus doesnt matter if u open the email or not just recieving is enough and if ur not running a good scanner IE norton's ur gonna get it.
Posted by: Erekose
Heh I'm sorry but if that every happened to my computer I think I'd laugh... after-I-had-hunted-down-the-sorry-fool-who-sent-it-to-me-and-smeared-his-blood-on-the-walls-while-dancing-naked-around-his-dismembered-corpse-chanting-and-whooping-stained-red-with-his-arterial-gouts-from-tearing-out-his-throat-with-my-teeth-and-eating-his-heart-like-some-ancient-aztec-warrior... oh, guess it's time to take the yellow pill now...
Posted by: SKYHN
It came from some email address in england(I think). The email contained an incomplete text advertisement for a Solitaire game for 7 Pounds or 15 U.S. Dollars.
Its a good thing that Norton was up to date. I guess that Virus has been around since about November. Norton's website said it was only found in a thousand or so computers.
Posted by: Darky!
Maybe, but the virus had to be imbeded in the email. Thats why you can disable scripts/html/active X for email previews.
Posted by: SKYHN
I dont know about scripts but there was an attachment in the email called "Setup.exe" Thats the file that Norton Cleaned. There possibly could have been a script that would tell it to run the file but Norton didnt say anything about that.
But either way, the virus is gone and the PC was protected. Norton completed its job correctly.
Posted by: JANNA
we get hit with magistr about 3 times a month its a lot more common in the business world than the home user world
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