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There’s a large scale spam run underway, sending short e-mail messages. No text, just the subject field of “Happy New Year!” and a file named postcard.exe as an attachment.

The attachments are variable, but so far we detect them all as Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Tibs.jy. We have a description online too.

In general, kill all files named “postcard.exe”. They always seem to be bad news.

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The semester is officially over.  It’s almost Christmas.  It’s time for a little Bohemian Rhapsody.

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I love how Microsoft’s solution is to say, just don’t open word files.

Microsoft is investigating a new report of limited “zero-day” attacks using a vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Word Viewer 2003, Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac, and Microsoft Word 2004 v. X for Mac, as well as Microsoft Works 2004, 2005, and 2006.

In order for this attack to be carried out, a user must first open a malicious Word file attached to an e-mail or otherwise provided to them by an attacker.

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University security experts warned administrators on Monday that a bot program has started to spread by exploiting five patched Microsoft vulnerabilities and a six-month-old flaw in Symantec’s antivirus software.

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Forshame Bill! First you try to lock McAfee out of the antivirus market and now you flag your competitors’ products as virii. Not good.  (Edit: Reported by Microsoft as false positive)

It seems that Microsoft has started flagging Gmail as a virus in their virus scanning software Windows Live OneCare. Many people are reporting that every time they open Gmail, a warning is displayed telling the user they are infected with “BAT/BWG.A”.

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