Posted by Michael Field on December 01, 2001 at 00:07:38 from 203.26.98.4:
In Reply to: Re: Another Warning? posted by Allan Lang on November 30, 2001 at 22:49:58:
Allan, that's the Sircam worm. Delete the message without opening the attachment. (And from your Deleted folder too.)
The text is a giveaway. So is the fact that the filename has two extensions, .zip and then .pif (Some people turn off the Show Filename Extensions option, so miss out on that clue. Any file with a double extension should be deleted without execution.)
Here are a couple of sites that might help with some identification/removal questions --
Sircam -- http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_SIRCAM.A
BadTransB -- http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/
Love Bug -- http://site.yahoo.com/speedlane2000/
HouseCall -- free online scanning and clean/delete -- http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_corp.asp
Norton, McAfee, and others have on-line identification, but no removal that I'm aware of (unless you purchase their software.)
AVG free software that will apparently monitor incoming email can be downloaded from -- www.grisoft.com/html/us_downl.html