Leona and all,
I asked another acquaintance of mine and this is what he sent to me.
Kathy Leigh
>snip
Subject: [Fwd: MEDIA RELEASE:Anna Kournikova -themed
e-mail worm spreads at
record-breaking speeds]
Yes Kath, it's a true virus.... I had received this from
F-Secure only moments before I got your message. I'm on
their mailing list - they keep track of what's happening
in the "virus world" and send out warnings.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: MEDIA RELEASE:Anna Kournikova -themed e-mail worm
spreads at record-breaking speeds
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 20:06:03 +0200
From: "Sirkia, Jaana" <Jaana.Sirkia(a)f-secure.com
To:
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> Anna Kournikova -themed e-mail
worm spreads at record-breaking
> speeds
> ESPOO-Finland, February 13, F-Secure Corporation
(HEX:FSC), a
> leading
> provider of centrally-managed, widely distributed security
> solutions is
> alerting computer users worldwide about a new, rapidly spreading
> e-mail
> worm. Known as "Onthefly", this worm sends itself in an Anna
> Kournikova
> -themed attachments in e-mails titled as "Here you have,;o)". Ms.
> Kournikova
> is known as an international tennis star.
> When the attachment is clicked, the virus sends itself via
e-mail
> to all
> addresses found from Outlook address book. The virus uses
> encryption to hide
> itself. The virus was named "Onthefly" because it sets a
> registry key with
> this name. It is also known with the name "SST".
> "Early propogation reports indicate that this virus
is spreading
> faster than
> many of the biggest viruses we saw last year", comments Mikko
> Hypponen.
> "It's seems to be spreading almost as fast as LoveLetter".
> LoveLetter is
> regarded as the biggest ever virus case, with estimated 15
> million infected
> computers.
> Because of the big number of e-mails being generated by
the
> virus, it can
> overload and crash e-mail servers. The virus activates on January
> 26th, when
> it opens up the web page of a Dutch computer shop, which
> apparently has
> nothing to do with the virus.
> F-Secure Anti-Virus is capable of detecting, stopping and
> removing the
> Onthefly virus. The detection of this virus was added on February
> 12.
> About F-Secure Corporation
> F-Secure Corporation is a leading provider of centrally managed
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