You've Received a Greeting Card... virus, bot net (solution included)

"You've Received a Greeting Card..." virus, bot net (solution included)

Greetings from The VACM Team,

In This Issue:
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- "You've Received a Greeting Card..." virus, bot net

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* The Bottom Line...
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Have you received any emails with a subject line of:

You’ve received a greeting card from a admirer! or...

You’ve received a greeting card from a class-mate!
You’ve received a greeting card from a colleague!
You’ve received a greeting card from a family member!
You’ve received a greeting card from a friend!
You’ve received a greeting card from a mate!
You’ve received a greeting card from a neighbor!
You’ve received a greeting card from a neighbour!
You’ve received a greeting card from a partner!
You’ve received a greeting card from a school-mate!
You’ve received a greeting card from a worshipper!

Spammers have launched a widespread email attack this month.

Warnings about this new threat have come from the FBI, the FTC
and Symantec (makers of Norton AntiVirus).

This attack doesn't try to get you to open an attachment, though.
Instead, it tries to get you to click a link to an alleged "greeting card".

If you click the link, your computer is the victim of a drive-by download
that infects your computer and turns it into a bot net member. A bot net
is essentially an army of infected PCs that can be given commands by
a central location. Commands can be sent to your PC to tell it to send
spam emails or to perform a Denial Of Service attack on an intended
victim.

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* What You Should Do
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1. If you are smart enough to simply delete suspicious emails, and you
    you are smart enough to not open attachments, then your chances of
    being infected are next to nothing. Unfortunately, in view
    of the rapid spread of this "Storm" variant, many aren't so smart. It is
    estimated that there are at least 1 million infected PCs that are part
    of the "bot net" that this worm is creating.

2. If you must click a link in an email, make absolutely sure that your
PC has ALL available Windows Security Patches and that your
antivirus is completely up to date.

3. Always let Windows Update install the latest patches.

Best Regards,
Marc Deschenes, VACM Editor
The VACM Project at
Automated PC Solutions

*** Be sure to check out the appendix at the end of this alert
if you are having trouble booting your computer into "Safe Mode".
The process is all spelled out for you there.

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******** APPENDIX - Handy How-To Tips **********

* How To Boot into Safe Mode

Shut the computer down so that the power is off.

Turn the computer on, wait 1 second and begin pressing the F8 key
on the keyboard, once every second repeatedly. Do this until
the Windows Startup Menu appears. If you get a keyboard
error, press F1 to resume and then continue pressing the
F8 key once every second, or your PC may tell you to press another key for BIOS setup.

Select Safe Mode from the Windows Startup Menu, then press
the Enter key on the keyboard.

Windows will then boot into Safe Mode.
NOTE: This may take longer than a normal boot.

At the end of the boot process a dialog box will appear
informing you that Windows is in Safe Mode. Click OK on this dialog box.

Windows is now in Safe Mode.

If you miss hitting the F8 at the right time, Windows will boot
normally and you will not see the "Safe Mode" message. In this
case, start from the top of these instructions until you get the
boot menu screen where you can choose "Safe Mode". This can be
a little tricky the first time you do it.