Simviation Forum - Fizzer Virus

May 12^th, 2003 at 12:16pm

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LONDON (Reuters) - A new computer virus, the "Fizzer" worm, is spreading rapidly across the Internet, infecting computer users in Asia, Europe and the United States, anti-virus officials say. Businesses in Asia were the first to report the attack. By mid-day in Europe on Monday, tens of thousands of computer users had been hit, with more cases expected in North America as the business day wears on. UK-based virus detection firm MessageLabs recorded 17,765 cases in 24 hours. "We've upgraded it to high-risk just for the fact that we've seen so many in the last day," said Mark Toshack, a virus analyst at MessageLabs. The worm, which carries random subject lines, disables computer users' anti-virus and firewall software, but is otherwise not a threat to users' personal files. The biggest headache was the extra traffic it generated, bogging down corporate networks. The mass-mailing worm spreads via email, online chat sessions and in peer-to-peer file sharing network such as Kazaa. It affects computers using the Windows operating system. "It sends an email message with varying format to all the addresses found in the Windows Address Book and Microsoft Outlook," Japanese security firm Trend Micro said. The worm arrives as a file attachment with a .EXE, .PIF, .COM, or .SCR extension. Other security software makers issued similar warnings through their Web sites, including U.S. firm Symantec Corp (www.symantec.com) and Finland's F-Secure (www.f-secure.com/v-descs/fizzer.shtml).

Just thought you'd all like to know, err quick Q. though, what is a Kazaa? In Britain we have a kahzee, but that is another name for a toilet....

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Reply #1 - May 12^th, 2003 at 12:19pm

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kazaa is a peer 2 peer program basically the same as napster but still running

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Reply #2 - May 12^th, 2003 at 12:51pm

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Oh right. Thanks Craig, and when will these guys get shut down I wonder?

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Reply #3 - May 12^th, 2003 at 12:57pm

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My Norton virus up-date has been working overtime today downloading files... Roll Eyes

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Also, just to be sure I have transferred all my Outlook Express addresses into a seperate notepad and deleted all the addresses in Outlook....
(I well remember the problems I had with the w32 Klez virus attacking my address book).... Cry

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Ozzy...are you sure "Fizzer Virus" is not a world wide marketing excercise advertising Scrumpy Jack... Wink

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Reply #4 - May 12^th, 2003 at 4:19pm

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No that is LOTCWFTRTSS (Lying On The Carpet Waiting For The Room To Stop Spinning) Virus Paul Wink

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Reply #5 - May 12^th, 2003 at 7:30pm

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You can find some good things on Kazaa, but you haver to be carefull, NAV has found a few viruses that i've downloaded so far.

I should probably update virus descriptions

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Reply #6 - May 12^th, 2003 at 8:25pm

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Yeah, Kazaa is a haven for viruses-but a great place to download things. I hope they never get shut down.

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Reply #7 - May 13^th, 2003 at 10:03am

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Here's the Fizzer info from Mcafee.com

http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=100295

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Reply #8 - May 13^th, 2003 at 10:56am

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It even attacks through AIM

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Reply #9 - May 13^th, 2003 at 4:08pm

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This thing can detect which anti-virus software you are using, shut it down and then infect your computer... how is this medium risk? ???
Kazza is good when you know how to use it.
I use it for music from unsigned bands (who rely on P2P for destribution), and to get things i did have on disc, but have long since become unreadable, like my Offspring - Ixxnay album and Xara. I always check the folder and system files for viruses when i download off of it.

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