RE: Beware of the "ANTS Version 3.0" Worm

["Andrew Whitaker" <andrew@cs.washington.edu>]

I received an email about this as well from someone in the UK.  The
specific file in question was ants3set.exe.  Obviously, people shouldn't
open it.  If we get many more emails about this, we should probably
inform CERT or some similar entity.

andrew




-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Lepreau [mailto:lepreau@cs.utah.edu]
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 4:43 PM
To: Craig Milo Rogers
Cc: janos-discuss@fast.cs.utah.edu; David Wetherall; Andrew Whitaker;
dmaughan@darpa.mil
Subject: Re: Beware of the "ANTS Version 3.0" Worm 


	To: janos-discuss@fast.cs.utah.edu
	From: Craig Milo Rogers <Rogers@ISI.EDU>
	Subject: Beware of the "ANTS Version 3.0" Worm
	Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:37:25 -0700
	Sender: owner-janos-discuss@fast.cs.utah.edu

		Today I received an Internet worm that calls itself
"ANTS
	Version 3.0".  It claims to be an email security patch.  Since I
was
	running email on Unix, it didn't bother me, but I'd advise
against
	opening it on a Ms Windows system.

						Craig Milo Rogers


Wow, now we all can brag about ANTS software
being in really wide use!