December 4, 2001 Security Advisory Everyone, New viruses: these nasty critters are making their way into corporate, school and home computers. The new one "goner", discovered ealier today, is particularly nefarious. Some of you have recently been added to my list of recipients. Most of you have been receiving these emails from me and know that this is not a joke. As always, before sending these out, I check out leading anvi virus vendor sites, such as mcafee, symantec, trendmicro, sophos, etc. to ensure I am not spreading false rumors and making you victims of a hoax. Check out the Symantec site for details on how to protect or rid your systems from them http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.badtrans.b@mm.html Discovered November 24 http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.eira.a@mm.html Discovered November 26 http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.alal.html Discovered November 28 http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.goner.a@mm.html Discovered December 4 * To ensure your privacy, your address is not visible to the recipients of this message. * If you would like to be removed from this list, please reply to this email with "remove" in the body of the email. Have a safe computing experience and don't forget to back up your files! Fredo Martin www.workingarts.com