Virus/Vulnerability Alerts

Receive e-mail notification of virus outbreaks on campus. Subscribe to

• Beware of attempts to steal your NetID password (6/2/2008)
• Phishing email re. Cornell accounts (2/12/2008)
• Stormworm trojan horse affecting Windows computers on campus (8/17/07)
• BlackWorm Deletes Windows Files on Feb 3, 2006 (2/1/2006)
• Critical Windows Update MS05-039; Esbot and Zotob Worms on Campus (8/16/05)
• Mytob.DG Windows E-mail Virus - attachments block lifted (6/8/05)
• Sober.P or Trojan.Ascetic.C Producing Large Volume of Spam E-mails (5/16/05)
• Redirect of web traffic to Marketscore lifted (5/10/05)
• Sober.O Windows E-mail Virus (5/3/05)
• MyDoom.AZ Windows E-mail Virus - attachment block lifted (2/21/05)
• Critical Windows Updates Released Feb. 05 (2/10/05)
• Update on Marketscore intercepting web traffic (1/4/05)
  • Windows spyware from Marketscore hihacking web connections (10/12/04)
• New e-mail virus - fotos.zip attachment (08/31/04)
• Beagle.AG (07/22/04)
• Critical Windows Update MS04-022, MS04-023 (7/13/04)
• Berbew trojan horse (6/25/04)
• Critical Windows Update MS04-011 (5/3/04)
• Beagle.X e-mail virus on campus (4/27/04)
• Netsky.Y worm (4/21/04)
• General warning about e-mail and viruses
• Numerous Beagle and Netsky variants (Feb.-March 2004) - see the CIT Contact Center (HelpDesk)'s Virus Information page
• W32.Novarg.A (01/27/04)
• W32.Beagle.A (01/19/04)
• Buffer Overflow in Sendmail (9/18/03)
• Buffer Overflow in OpenSSH (9/17/03)
• New Microsoft RPC Patch Needed (9/11/03)
• Sobig.F (8/19/03)
• Blaster, Welchia, and Nachi (8/12/03)
• Mimail (8/4/03)
• Buffer Overflow in Microsoft RPC (7/17/03)
• Bugbear.B (6/5/03)
• Buffer Overflow in sendmail (4/2/03)
  
• Integer Overflow in Sun RPC XDR Library Routines (3/19/03)
  
• SQL Worm (1/25/03)
• SoBig Worm (1/22/03)
• Frethem Worm (July 15, 2002)
• SQL Server Vulnerability (May 21, 2002)
• Klez Worm (April 23, 2002)
• My Party (Jan. 29, 2002)
• Nimda Worm (Sept. 18, 2001)

Related Links at Cornell

• Virus Information from the CIT HelpDesk
• Symantec Norton AntiVirus at Cornell: download, install and use it free of charge
• IP addresses currently being blocked at the campus perimeter
• PureMessage blocks viruses and flags spam on the CIT mail servers
• Lecture Notes from Christine Orshesky's Virus Management Mini-Symposium (June 2002)

Essential Virus-related Links

• Symantec - up-to-date info and fixes from the maker of Norton AntiVirus
• Microsoft TechNet - security patches for Windows systems
• CERT Coordination Center - advisories and vulnerability notes

Hoaxes and Fraud

• Reporting Nigerian Fraud E-mail received at Cornell
• Vmyths - truth about computer virus myths, hoaxes, and urban legends
• CIAC HoaxBusters - more about hoaxes and chain letters
• Internet Fraud Complaint Center