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  • From: "Scott Williamson" <swilliamson@acespower.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Nasty New Virus
  • Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 16:06:17 -0500

More info.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.html

It doesn't look like it is very widespread and it doesn't spread by itself so
if probably won't be. That doesn't mean variants won't be able to though.

I believe this is a virus exploiting a known bug in Internet Explorer. There
is supposed to be a patch being released for that in a few days. Hopefully...

-----Original Message-----
From: Doreen Howard [mailto:gardendiva@charter.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 3:45 PM
To: gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org; nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Cc: Peter Howard; David Howard
Subject: [NAFEX] Nasty New Virus

Do NOT under any circumstances open email attachments today. A new virus
called "Q-Host One" was unleashed last night, and it takes over your
computer. My ISP tells me that patches or fixes are not up and running yet.
It's a Trojan horse and will take over your Internet browser, always sending
you to a small domain in Houston, TX, which is overloaded, of course. You
won't be able to access anything on the web.
Doreen Howard


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