コンピュータウイルスデマ情報(Computer Virus Hoax)


PKZ300
Good Times
PENPAL GREETINGS!
NaughtyRobot

PKZ300
圧縮ソフトで有名なPKZIPの3.00バージョンに関しての偽情報ですが、これは実際にバージョン3.00はPKWARE社が作成しておらず、3.00バージョンはウイルスに感染しているソフトであることが分かっています。(少し面倒な話です)

Good Times
Good Timeと呼ばれる偽情報で、これを読んだり、ダウンロードしたりするとハードディスクの内容が消去されますと言う偽情報。メールの内容としては、以下の様な英文が送られてきます。
Here is some important information.
Beware of a file called Goodtimes.
Happy Chanukah everyone, and be careful out there.
There is a virus on America Online being sent by E-Mail.
If you get anything called "Good Times",
DON'T read it or download it.
It is a virus that will erase your hard drive.
Forward this to all your friends.
It may help them a lot.

更に、次の様な別なメッセージも流されています。
The FCC released a warning last Wednesday concerning a matter of
major importance to any regular user of the InterNet. Apparently,
a new computer virus has been engineered by a user of America
Online that is unparalleled in its destructive capability. Other,
more well-known viruses such as Stoned, Airwolf, and Michaelangelo
pale in comparison to the prospects of this newest creation by a
warped mentality.

What makes this virus so terrifying, said the FCC, is the fact that
no program needs to be exchanged for a new computer to be infected.
It can be spread through the existing e-mail systems of the
InterNet. Once a computer is infected, one of several things can
happen. If the computer contains a hard drive, that will most
likely be destroyed. If the program is not stopped, the computer's
processor will be placed in an nth-complexity infinite binary loop
- which can severely damage the processor if left running that way
too long. Unfortunately, most novice computer users will not
realize what is happening until it is far too late.


PENPAL GREETINGS!
Good Timesと同様なものですが、次の様なメッセージが送られてきます。

The PENPAL GREETINGS! Hoax shown below appears to be an attempt
to kill an e-mail chain letter by claiming that it is
a self starting Trojan that destroys your hard drive and
then sends copies of itself to everyone whose address in in your mailbox.
Reading an e-mail message does not run it nor does it run any attachments,
so this Trojan must be self starting.
Aside from the fact that a program cannot start itself,
the Trojan would also have to know about every different kind of
e-mail program to be able to forward copies of itself to other people.
This warning is totally a hoax.
FYI!

Subject: Virus Alert
Importance: High
If anyone receives mail entitled: PENPAL GREETINGS! please delete it
WITHOUT reading it. Below is a little explanation of the message, and
what it would do to your PC if you were to read the message.
If you have any questions or concerns
please contact SAF-IA Info Office on 697-5059.

This is a warning for all internet users - there is a dangerous virus
propogating across the internet through an e-mail message entitled
"PENPAL GREETINGS!".
DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY MESSAGE ENTITLED "PENPAL GREETINGS!"
This message appears to be a friendly letter asking you if you are
interestedin a penpal, but by the time you read this letter, it is too late.
The "trojan horse" virus will have already infected the boot sector of
your hard drive, destroying all of the data present.
It is a self-replicating virus, and once the message is read, it will
AUTOMATICALLY forward itself to anyone who's e-mail address is present
in YOUR mailbox!
This virus will DESTROY your hard drive, and holds the potential to DESTROY
the hard drive of anyone whose mail is in your inbox, and who's mail is in
their inbox, and so on.
If this virus remains unchecked, it has the potential to do a great deal of
DAMAGE to computer networks worldwide!!!!
Please, delete the message entitled "PENPAL GREETINGS!" as soon as you see it!
And pass this message along to all of your friends and relatives,
and the other readers of the newsgroups and mailing lists which you are on,
so that they are not hurt by this dangerous virus!!!!


NaughtyRobot
メールで直接ユーザに来たり、ウェブの管理者に送られてくる偽情報です。メールの発信者(Fromで書かれる部分)が自分自身になっている等の仕組みを使いますので初心者は不安になるようです。最近、国内のパソコン通信のユーザ等にも送られてきたり、インターネット・サービス・プロバイダーに加入している会員に送られる事もあり、不安を煽っています。
Quite a few Web site administrators have received email messages
that seem to be originating from the same machine hosting the Web site.
The email headers are apparently being forged to hide the original sender of the message.
The mail being received contains the following:

Subject: security breached by NaughtyRobot
This message was sent to you by NaughtyRobot, an Internet spider that
crawls into your server through a tiny hole in the World Wide Web.

NaughtyRobot exploits a security bug in HTTP and has visited your host
system to collect personal, private, and sensitive information.

It has captured your Email and physical addresses, as well as your phone
and credit card numbers. To protect yourself against the misuse of this
information, do the following:

  1. alert your server SysOp,
  2. contact your local police,
  3. disconnect your telephone, and
  4. report your credit cards as lost.
Act at once. Remember: only YOU can prevent DATA fires.

This has been a public service announcement from the makers of
NaughtyRobot -- CarJacking its way onto the Information SuperHighway.

The NaughtyRobot email message appears to be a hoax.
There is no indication that any of the problems described in the body
have taken place on any machine.


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