Virus check...

I received a suspect mail and sent it off to the virus scan site.
((E-Mail Removed) : Subject SCAN. This is what they sent back)

The interesting thing is not that there was a virus there: I was almost
sure the was..but how many sites *didn't* find it..

Complete scanning result of "WW_671282.zip", processed in VirusTotal
at 08/12/2008 14:39:39 (CET).

[ file data ]
* name..: WW_671282.zip
* size..: 49434
* md5...: aefa2457dce9214b1349403bba664d12
* sha1..: c4aa3c90299e783113bb5c97d830f15a618bb226
* peid..: -

[ scan result ]
AhnLab-V3 2008.8.12.0/20080812 found nothing
AntiVir 7.8.1.19/20080812 found [TR/Spy.ZBot.DPI]
Authentium 5.1.0.4/20080812 found [W32/Downldr2.DIFW]
Avast 4.8.1195.0/20080811 found nothing
AVG 8.0.0.156/20080812 found [Pakes_c.SH]
BitDefender 7.2/20080812 found [Trojan.Spy.Wsnpoem.GH]
CAT-QuickHeal 9.50/20080811 found nothing
ClamAV 0.93.1/20080812 found [Trojan.Zbot-1936]
DrWeb 4.44.0.09170/20080812 found nothing
eSafe 7.0.17.0/20080811 found nothing
eTrust-Vet 31.6.6027/20080812 found [Win32/Kollah.NG]
Ewido 4.0/20080812 found nothing
F-Prot 4.4.4.56/20080812 found [W32/Downldr2.DIFW]
F-Secure 7.60.13501.0/20080812 found [Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.dvy]
Fortinet 3.14.0.0/20080812 found nothing
GData 2.0.7306.1023/20080812 found [Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.dvy]
Ikarus T3.1.1.34.0/20080812 found [Win32.Outbreak]
K7AntiVirus 7.10.412/20080812 found nothing
Kaspersky 7.0.0.125/20080812 found [Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.dvy]
McAfee 5358/20080811 found nothing
Microsoft 1.3807/20080812 found [PWS:Win32/Zbot.gen!G]
NOD32v2 3348/20080812 found [Win32/Spy.Agent.PZ]
Norman 5.80.02/20080812 found nothing
Panda 9.0.0.4/20080812 found nothing
PCTools 4.4.2.0/20080812 found nothing
Prevx1 V2/20080812 found nothing
Rising 20.57.12.00/20080812 found nothing
Sophos 4.32.0/20080812 found [Troj/Dloadr-BPX]
Sunbelt 3.1.1542.1/20080812 found [Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.gen (v)]
Symantec 10/20080812 found [Trojan.Wsnpoem]
TheHacker 6.2.96.396/20080812 found nothing
TrendMicro 8.700.0.1004/20080812 found [TROJ_DLOADR.IM]
VBA32 3.12.8.3/20080811 found nothing
ViRobot 2008.8.12.1333/20080812 found nothing
VirusBuster 4.5.11.0/20080811 found nothing
Webwasher-Gateway 6.6.2/20080812 found [Win32.NewMalware.PU!59392]

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> I received a suspect mail and sent it off to the virus scan site.
> ((E-Mail Removed) : Subject SCAN. This is what they sent back)
>
> The interesting thing is not that there was a virus there: I was
> almost sure the was..but how many sites *didn't* find it..

Not that surprising really. If it's a new one, I imagine it'll take a few
days before all the companies become aware of it and update their virus
definition files. Probably if you resubmitted it tomorrow, there would be a
far higher detection rate.

At the end of the day, common sense is your first line of defence against
viruses. You'd have to be a real dweeb to imagine that a file with a name
like "WW_671282.zip" attched to an email *wasn't" a virus.

Tim

Tim Downie wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> I received a suspect mail and sent it off to the virus scan site.
>> ((E-Mail Removed) : Subject SCAN. This is what they sent back)
>>
>> The interesting thing is not that there was a virus there: I was
>> almost sure the was..but how many sites *didn't* find it..
>
> Not that surprising really. If it's a new one, I imagine it'll take a few
> days before all the companies become aware of it and update their virus
> definition files. Probably if you resubmitted it tomorrow, there would be a
> far higher detection rate.
>
> At the end of the day, common sense is your first line of defence against
> viruses. You'd have to be a real dweeb to imagine that a file with a name
> like "WW_671282.zip" attched to an email *wasn't" a virus.
>
> Tim
>
>
trouble is the Dweebs live amongst us ,I am working with 300+
programmers and professionals for a Major credit card company and last
week alone we have had 6 different viruses caused by them opening dodgy
emails or surfing weird sites during lunch breaks

--
Kevin R
Reply address works

"Kevin" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:eYgok.152193$(E-Mail Removed)2...
>
> trouble is the Dweebs live amongst us ,I am working with 300+
> programmers and professionals for a Major credit card company and last
> week alone we have had 6 different viruses caused by them opening dodgy
> emails

I just don't see them. I don't know what virus filtering services my ISP
(34sp) uses but pretty well nothing at all ever gets through.

Look, hardly any email uses actually *want* to receive these viruses, surely
to goodness, so why doesn't *every* ISP just silently dump them by default?

--
Tim Ward
Brett Ward Limited - www.brettward.co.uk

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:50:11 +0100, The Natural Philosopher <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>I received a suspect mail and sent it off to the virus scan site.
>((E-Mail Removed) : Subject SCAN. This is what they sent back)

I'm surprised it reached there at all...LOL


>The interesting thing is not that there was a virus there: I was almost
>sure the was..but how many sites *didn't* find it..

Tim Downie wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> I received a suspect mail and sent it off to the virus scan site.
>> ((E-Mail Removed) : Subject SCAN. This is what they sent back)
>>
>> The interesting thing is not that there was a virus there: I was
>> almost sure the was..but how many sites *didn't* find it..
>
> Not that surprising really. If it's a new one, I imagine it'll take a few
> days before all the companies become aware of it and update their virus
> definition files. Probably if you resubmitted it tomorrow, there would be a
> far higher detection rate.
>
> At the end of the day, common sense is your first line of defence against
> viruses. You'd have to be a real dweeb to imagine that a file with a name
> like "WW_671282.zip" attched to an email *wasn't" a virus.
>

Oh, I totally agree.

But this is not a particularly new one I think.
> Tim
>
>

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>But this is not a particularly new one I think.

Oh the payload attached to the UPS emails has been changing pretty
rapidly, far faster than some AV vendors update their virus
definitions. Once a day doesn't really cut it any more.

The advice not to follow links or open attachments unless you've
confirmed in some way that they are genuine is much more useful.
Especially as the scam ones like this are getting more convincing.

--
(E-Mail Removed) http://lnr.livejournal.com/

Tim Ward wrote:
> "Kevin" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:eYgok.152193$(E-Mail Removed)2...
> >
>> trouble is the Dweebs live amongst us ,I am working with 300+
>> programmers and professionals for a Major credit card company and last
>> week alone we have had 6 different viruses caused by them opening dodgy
>> emails
>
> I just don't see them. I don't know what virus filtering services my ISP
> (34sp) uses but pretty well nothing at all ever gets through.
>
> Look, hardly any email uses actually *want* to receive these viruses, surely
> to goodness, so why doesn't *every* ISP just silently dump them by default?
>
thats ok if your ISP knows its a virus, how it differentiates between an
unknown virus and your friend emailing you a holiday video Zipped up is
where the problem lies, do you want your ISP to filter out a wanted
emails because it might be a virus?

--
Kevin R
Reply address works

"Java Jive" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news(E-Mail Removed)...
> Trouble is, they are designed to look like something else.
>
> I suspect the OP may have received the same or a similar email to the
> one I got this morning, which claimed to be from UPS concerning a
> package I had posted a month ago. What I presume was a payload
> pretended to be some sort of form 'UPS' wanted me to complete, in a
> zip. Fortunately, I haven't posted anything via UPS recently, so I
> knew straight away it was spam, and killfiled it.
>

>>>>>>>>>>

OH S!!T

I recd. that a few days ago and I opened it as I WAS expecting a
dellivery...

I realised what it was too late ...... :-((((

I then updated AVG and did a full scan which found nowt.
Everythins _seeeeems_ OK, but....

Now what?
Is my Dell going toturn into a pumpkin next Friday the thirtenth?

(Currently rescanning all with updated AVG again....<X's fingers>

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

--

¦zulu¦

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> I received a suspect mail and sent it off to the virus scan site.
> ((E-Mail Removed) : Subject SCAN. This is what they sent back)
>
> The interesting thing is not that there was a virus there: I was almost
> sure the was..but how many sites *didn't* find it..

That happened to me once. It was a 'rare' virus. Had to do a manual removal
based on a method from one its cousins !

Graham