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In a message dated 11/10/99 6:42:22 PM Eastern Standard Time,
dispatch(a)mcafee.com writes:
<< VBS/Bubbleboy is a new Internet worm, discovered 11/08/99.
AVERT has assigned it a LOW risk assessment; it has not
appeared in the wild.
VBS/Bubbleboy is a NEW type of worm: Unlike previous
worms transmitted through email, this new type of worm
does not come as an executable attachment. Instead,
VBS/Bubbleboy infects PCs as soon as the transmitting
email message is opened. This is a VERY significant
innovation! Historically, it has not been possible to
contract a virus or worm by merely opening and
reading an email message. This is no longer true,
and VBS/Bubbleboy marks the beginning of a more
dangerous computing environment.
VBS/Bubbleboy is transmitted through an email message
with the subject heading "Bubbleboy is back!" It will
ONLY infect PCs running Windows 98 with Internet Explorer
5 and Outlook or Outlook Express. PCs using Outlook are
infected upon opening the email message, while Outlook
Express users may be infected by viewing the message
with the "Preview Pane" feature! When the email
is opened, the worm creates a file called UPDATE.HTA.
The next time the PC is booted up, the worm sends
itself embedded in an email to EVERY address in EVERY
MS Outlook address book on the local system. It does
this only once.
........ McAfee.com >>