posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2004 7:02 AM
by
demiliani
A new virus via email...
A new computer virus named Novarg spread quickly around the Internet Monday, infecting thousands of computers worldwide.
The virus caused so much excess e-mail traffic that it managed to degrade the Internet's performance, according to Web traffic measurement firm Keynote Systems Inc.
Novarg is effective because it arrives posing as a harmless text file. It often claims to be from a colleague or friend and offers the believable explanation that the original message had to be translated into a plain-text file for delivery. The attachment often displays the notepad icon. The message body often reads: "The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has been sent as a binary attachment."
Be careful and make attention!