Full Disclosure: Re: virus in email RTF message MS OE almost disabled

["Thor (Hammer of God)" <thor () hammerofgod com>]

You know, every time I start to get a bit of hope for what looks like an upward trend of businesses and organizations 
taking security seriously, I see crap like this.  Your organization is a Medicare prescription contractor with a 
national network of 61,022 contracted pharmacies, and not only are you running unpatched versions of old OS's and 
opening email attachments because they "look OK," but you have to post to Full Disclosure asking help for trivial virus 
detection and removal advice?   Now that everyone on FD knows that you are vulnerable and that you open email 
attachments, you've probably just caused the organization to be pwned 9 ways from Sunday.

To answer your question, call a professional and have them do it.  And in the future, don't send out emails like this 
from your organization email announcing the state of your security.  That's what Hotmail is for.

t

From: full-disclosure-bounces () lists grok org uk [mailto:full-disclosure-bounces () lists grok org uk] On Behalf Of 
Mikhail A. Utin
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 7:18 AM
To: full-disclosure () lists grok org uk
Subject: [Full-disclosure] virus in email RTF message MS OE almost disabled

Hello,
Opening looking OK email message in my MS OE I've very likely got new kind of virus, which exploits MS Office flaw 
recently announced. Immediately after, my OE started consuming huge memory when I switched between folders or messages. 
I've not seen any process in Task Manager taking up to 1 GB memory (physical is 512M). I did not find any newly 
installed executables either. When I shut down OE, the computer works fine.
Any thoughts?
Thank you

Mikhail

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