For those of you who are not aware of this already:
The
SIRCAM virus is a multi payload virus that seeks out the windows address book on the local machine then selects a file at random from 'My Documents' and forwards this file to all of the addresses in the address book.
Many people who send/forward the email are not even aware they are doing it. The file attached can have most any extension on it. including but not limited to .exe, .com, .bat, .jpg, .pif, .gif, .doc, .txt etc...
There is an online cure for this and many other viruses that can be found at
http://www.sarc.com/ look under removal tools
there are also online virus checkers as well.
http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_pcc.asp Most of these viruses are directed at Outlook and or Outlook Express email programs. Certainly not limited to them but those are the primary/principle targets.
Travis the Sircam32 virus is both in english and in spanish
Both SARC and MCAFEE have guidelines on how to send them viris samples.
It is highly unlikely that UBB users are directly being targeted by this or any other virus. Hysteria is the greatest threat of this or any virus. If you get a virus be calm and goto one of the above mentioned websites and follow the instructions given there to clean it from your system.
After you have disinfected your system/network then you may want to send the person you got the virus from a brief note that they sent you "X virus" and they should take measures to disinfect their system as well.
Garaelb Webtech for the
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