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by 28

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I support a network of 30 computers, in the last three days, four employees got a virus from an attachment named "wugiiif.bmp." It affects Outlook. The mail arrives with no subject. All employees opened the attachment then said their Outlooks were messed up. If anybody has seen this particular virus, I would like to know what it is and what your methods of reolution were. Any answers?

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by mtnsqs

Your first step is to teach ALL EMPLOYEES not to directly open ANY files attachements to mail. You will need management support to get this in place.

Next ensure you systems have up to dat anti-virus in place and regular updates are distributed to all machines AUTOMATICALLY - don't rely on the users downloading updates.

Next, when you ahve a suspect virus look on the symantec site or vet site for details - latest viruses are always listed on them. Also contact you virus protection supplier as they can and should help -its why the software costs what it does.

by 28

I went on both the Mcafee and Norton sites, no updates make mention of a "wugiiif.bmp" virus.

by cdobbin

I have never seen or heard of this virus, but I believe the above answer is correct, the virus is not so much the problem, its the users who open up e-mail from unknown sources, I mean how many unknown sources send you usefull, harmless attachments,I don't think the virus programers spend alot of time sending dilbert cartoons to people.
Make sure you have virus protection on all desktops and servers, not sure what you are using for a mail server but you can install filters that would catch mail from unknown sources.

by 28

I educate, I send virus updates, many of our employees have the software.

However, I do not know what this particular virus is.

I am looking for an approach relative to this particular virus.

by fossil

The .bmp wouild not / could not cause your problem. What has happened is the virus author / email originator has a file named ANYTHINGYOURANT.BMP.exe . The receiving machine has it's setting set to **NOT** show the file extension, so it shows up as ANYTHINGYOURANT.BMP . The actual virus could be anything -- the filename is insignificant in this case. IT could be renamed to SOMETHINGELSE.BMP.exe and have the same efect. Have your users set the options to DISPLAY FILE EXTENSIONS (i.e. -- deselect HIDE FILE EXTENSIONS ) . Otherwise there will be no protection. As far as your current dilemma, 1)virus scan all drives, 2) reinstall damaged software. 3) Install email server virus checking.

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