Fighting malware and spam

Update robots.txt

The email, in German, warns users about a 'very nasty virus that is currently infecting millions of webservers' and urges webmasters to update the file robots.txt in the website's main directory. However, doing so will stop the website from being indexed by any genuine search engine and will not protect the website from being infected by viruses in any way.

Hoax text

Subject: ACHTUNG, gemeiner VIRUS. Dringend diese Datei auf Ihrem Webserver
einbinden
=========================================================================

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

im Moment werden Millionen Webserver von Viren befallen.


Bitte binden Sie unbedingt den Anhang zum Schutz auf Ihrer Webseite
in folgendes Verzeichnis ein:


www.virusbtn.com/robots.txt

Die Robots-Datei erstellen Sie mir Ihrem Editor:

_____________________________________________

User-agent: *

Disallow: /

______________________________________________

Diese speichern Sie als robots.txt und binden Sie in Ihrem Hauptverzeichnis
ein.


Nur so ist sicher, dass kein Schaden entsteht indem Sie dem Virus
verbieten, Ihre Webseite zu besuchen.
Bitte beeilen Sie sich, da an diesem Wochenende mit einem erheblichen
Angriff zu rechnen ist.
	

VB reminds users: if you receive a virus warning message, do not forward the message to all your friends/colleagues, as it may suggest in the text. If you have verified that the message is a hoax, simply delete it. If you are unsure, forward the message to your IT administrator. Failing that, forward it to hoax@virusbtn.com. It is possible that you may receive a hoax email with a file attachment. Since it is possible that these attachments could be infected VB advises such files to be be treated with the same caution as any other unexpected message attachment and urges users not to open them.

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