For Thursday, December 20, 2001
New Year Computer Worms
A mass-mailing Internet worm that purports to offer New Year greetings was spreading rapidly Wednesday, and is rumored to be the big Christmas virus that antivirus companies have been gearing up for.
The worm, operating under the guises of Zacker, Reeezak, Maldal and Keyluc, arrives with the subject header "Happy New Year" and contains a file attachment entitled "christmas.exe." It uses familiar social engineering tactics to entice recipients to double click on the attachment, before mailing itself and the victim's contact list to everyone in the contact's address book.
"Over the last week, we have seen thousands of executable files like this that have been sent as jokes or Christmas cards," said Shipp. "We have seen 4,000 copies of such viruses this week, and so from a social engineering point of view, it looks like this virus will continue."
The moral of the story … no matter from whom it arrives, do NOT open any Christmas greeting or Christmas card attachment with an .exe ending.
School Breakfast Program - If we have buses that arrive late, those students must be allowed to eat breakfast if they normally do so. Parents rely on us feeding the kids, the students rely on us to feed them their breakfast, and most important, the kitchen has prepared all that food anticipating the normal number.
Reminder - Award envelopes must be to Pam on Friday
