Re: [Full-disclosure] virus in email RTF message MS OE almost disabled

["Thor (Hammer of God)" <thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:full-disclosure-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mikhail A. Utin
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 7:18 AM
To: full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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