[Internet Safety] New E-Mail Worm Targets Hole in Internet Explorer

From : budd cochran

Q: i found about forty of them in my mailwasher program this am but i run netscape 7.1 anyway. budd dzuyen wrote new e-mail worm targets hole in internet explorer thu sep 18 744 pm et technology - reuters san francisco reuters - anti-virus companies warned on thursday of a new computer worm circulating through e-mail that purports to be security software from microsoft corp. but actually tries to disable security programs that are already running. the worm dubbed swen or gibe takes advantage of a two-year-old hole in internet explorer and affects systems that have not installed a patch for that security hole according to internet security company network associates inc.. the malicious program arrives as an attachment to an e-mail pretending to contain a patch for holes in internet explorer outlook and outlook express and then mails itself off to addresses located on the victims computer. read complete story at = http//story..yahoo.com/tmpl=story&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20030918/tcnm/techwormswendc --------------------------------------------------------------------- free laser pointer at = www.dzuyen.web1000.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- .