ATTN: List Researchers
FYI, below is info about the latest virus.
http://news.excite.com/news/zd/000504/09/iloveyou-e-mail-worm
ILOVEYOU e-mail worm invades
PCs,
Updated 9:55 AM ET May 4, 2000, by Margaret Kane, ZDNet News,
Melissa-like e-mail worm, bearing the title ILOVEYOU,' is sweeping
through Asia and has been reported in the U.S. and the UK., A new
Melissa-like e-mail worm has spread through Asia and Europe via e-mail
messages titled "ILOVEYOU." , A spokeswoman for anti-virus company
Symantec Corp. told ZDNet UK that the virus "seems to be very
widespread" and that four major, European corporations have had
serious problems with their e-mail systems due to the worm. , Dow
Jones reported this morning that the worm affected Hong Kong and
Singapore, and appeared to have hit investment banks and public
relations, firms particularly hard. The wire service said that Credit
Lyonnais Securities (Asia) shut its outgoing mail server 11 minutes
after receiving the virus to, prevent it from spreading any further.
, And there are reports that it has begun to spread to the United
States. , Symantec said it has reports of more than 1,000 infections.
The bug, which the company called VBS.LoveLetter.A, uses Microsoft
Outlook to, replicate itself, sending messages with the message
"kindly check the attached LOVELETTER coming from me." , The name of
the attachment is "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs." , Once the
attachment is opened, the worm replicates itself and adds several files
to the user's computer. , The file may have originated from a user
dubbed "spyder" in the Philippines. The text of the virus script also
contains the phrase "i hate to go to, school." , Numerous
anti-viral sites, such as Symantec's Antivirus Research Center, say a
fix is pending. , Melissa brought worldwide attention to the problems
of computer viruses when it struck e-mail systems in March 1999. The
program knocked out, e-mail servers at dozens of corporations and is
estimated to have caused millions of dollars' worth of damage. ,
David L. Smith, the alleged author of the Melissa virus, was recently
arraigned in a New Jersey court on charges of interruption to public,
communications, conspiracy to commit the offense and attempt to commit
the offense., Related Links:, 'I love you' e-mail virus
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Be careful.
Bill Caddell
Listowner