DVTEX161 - virus-waarschuwing internet folklore

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Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 12:35:48 +0200
To: Theo.Meder@meertens.knaw.nl
From: "E.Venbrux"
Subject: virus-waarschuwing internet folklore
BREAKING NEWS -
- Dangerous Trojan Horse -
LONDON - British Intelligence reported that fugitive terrorist-leader
Osama Bin L. has also been active in cyber crime, probably even as early
as the 1980's. Officials have learned that at least thousands or even
millions of servers are infected by the Osama-virus, a new kind of
trojan horse.
'There is absolutely no time to waste.', former Tory MP Ph.Collins
explained at a timid press conference earlier this morning. ' We urge
all system administrators throughout the world, especially those who are
running 'Unix' or variants, to explore their drives for directories with
the name of 'Bin'. If such directory is found, immediately rename it
into 'Bush' and reboot the system. This should isolate the problem.'
Mr. Collins also pointed out that the virus isn't really a Trojan Horse.
'Actually it is a Trojan Camel.', he said. 'We still don't know how it
works, what it does or how it multiplies itself. We don't even know why
we never did notice anything unusual. But we know it's there and that's
enough.
It's like a signature of the most wanted man in the world, saying 'hi'
on your server.'
At this time it is hard to say how many systems have been infected,
Donalds Mc Afee, founder of Mcafee Anti virus added. 'Up until now our
researchers did find this 'Bin'-trojan camel on every server and that is
frantic. We have never seen something like this before.'
(Per email verzonden vanuit Nijmegen op 8 oktober 2001)

BRUN 07405 - Viruses, `The Mystery Glitch', etc.    BRUN 07405 - Viruses, `The Mystery Glitch', etc.   

Een virus met de naam Bin wordt verspreid door Osama bin Laden. Het virus heeft het vooral voorzien op Unix en aanverwante systemen. Wie in zijn directiories de bestandsnaam Bin tegenkomt, moet deze zo snel mogelijk veranderen in Bush. Het is niet zozeer een Trojaans Paard, maar meer een Trojaanse Kameel.

Per email verzonden vanuit Nijmegen op 8 oktober 2001

8 oktober 2001

Viruses, `The Mystery Glitch', etc. & TM 8043, VS onder vuur

Trojaans Paard    Trojaans Paard   

Trojan Horse    Trojan Horse   

Osama Bin Laden    Osama Bin Laden   

George Bush    George Bush   

Unix    Unix   

Tony MP Ph.Collins    Tony MP Ph.Collins   

Donalds Mc Afee    Donalds Mc Afee   

McAfee    McAfee   

Camel    Camel   

Kameel    Kameel   

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