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Douma
12-13-2005, 03:15 PM
I received this mail and i don't know if its a "really"mail or one of these spam mails.I'm searching on the net and i can't find anything about this virus,but the site of McAfee :(
Did you hear something about this?


Attention!

A dangerous virus was detected in your system!

Attention! McAfeeŽ informs you that your system contains a dangerous virus known as Kongos.31XRW.Worm.

The worm activates on December 31, 2005, at 00:00:00 on all the infected computers, deletes the operation system and BIOS without any chance for restoration.

Moreover, the virus steals private information of users, including personal documents, credit card numbers, typed passwords (keylogger), as well as access to internet banking.

By approximate estimation, the malicious worm is now settled on more than 90 mln PCs worldwide, with about 700,000 computers infected daily.

The primary problem is the constant mutation of the virus body, which prevents antivirus software from tracking Kongos.31XRW.Worm.

The virus distributes itself through infected sites, network PCs, email, peer-to-peer networks.



McAfeeŽ strongly recommends to download a patch from the official site which will interrupt the virus mutation, delete Kongos.31XRW.Worm from your system and prevent future infections.



Official site: http://www.mcafee-center.net/?page=update



We see it as our obligation to inform you about the coming epidemic!



Kind Regards,

McAfee Analysts.

Douma
12-13-2005, 03:19 PM
I forgot to say that i have Norton Antivirus and not mcAfee software,how they know that a virus was detected in my system :confused:

Olly
12-13-2005, 03:20 PM
Do NOT go to that site! Its domain name has been created yesterday and it has nothing to do with the real MacAfee at http://www.mcafee.com/us/
I bet it is full of trojans etc.
I am getting dozens of emails like that daily with trojan, virus, ebay scams etc with all the spam I am getting.

Douma
12-13-2005, 03:24 PM
THANK YOU!!!i was really afraid of this mail,i will delete it of the outlook right now.

Olly
12-13-2005, 03:29 PM
You are welcome! As a general rule, do not click links from people you do not know. I am very surprised at how fast they were to spam people considering the domain name has been taken only December 12, probably with a stolen credit card...

Colleen
12-14-2005, 12:20 PM
Nothing here! I have Norton too! As Olly said if you don't know the person etc never open a link.