Heads-Up**W32.Erah.A

[Und3ertak3r]

More a case of if you are silly enough to open a message with a sus attachment...

Here is the Symantec (http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.erah.a@mm.html) Speil.. I haven't checked any others .. I'm off to Par-Teee..

Cheers


Wild: Low
Damage: Low
Distribution: High

W32.Erah.A@mm is a mass-mailing worm that sends itself to all the addresses in the Windows Address Book. The email message has the following characteristics:

Subject: The subject line will be one of the following:

FW: Your Hare is Balding
RE: You New Hare
FW: FW: FW: The Hare
Attachment: <original worm filename>

The above email routine will occur on the following days only:
January 1
February 14
April 1
April 21
July 4
August 12
October 1
November 14
December 25




Type: Worm
Infection Length: 17,408 bytes
Systems Affected: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me
Systems Not Affected: Macintosh, OS/2, UNIX, Linux

[ii-monk]

Nice info we have to be ready for those nusty viruses.