[grrltalk] RE: [techtalk] heads-up: M$ (e-mail) virus making rounds.

[alissa bader]

It's also hit the Pentagon. And the National
Institutes of Health.  And the British House of
Commons.  And our parent company's Exchange server in
Texas.

well, tee hee on them for using M$ products!

anyway links to possible fixes:


http://www.zdnet.com/tlkbck/comment/22/0,7056,88754-421758,00.html
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/software/specials/2000/05/iloveyou/

good luck!

--alissa

--- Stacie Turner <sturner at MRA-NET.ORG> wrote:
> Too late, this idiot in my company already opened
> it.  "Well, I didn't know
> who it was from, and I didn't even recognize the
> file extension, but I
> opened it anyway."
> 
> Aarrrrghh.
> 
> If anyone finds a fix or has any decent info on it,
> let me know.
> 
> 
> 
> Ask questions, get answers and offer feedback about
> Marketing Research and
> MRA's new web site in the MRA forums at
> http://www.mra-net.org/forum/.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Plumb [mailto:andrew at plumb.org]
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 9:18 AM
> To: Ottawa-Carleton Linux Users Group
> Cc: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> Subject: [techtalk] heads-up: M$ (e-mail) virus
> making rounds.
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Just a quick heads-up to anyone out there that might
> actually be doing
> e-mail on a Windows machine, or maintaining Windows
> machines that receive
> e-mail.  There's a new virus making the rounds with
> the subject "I LOVE
> YOU"; it has a vbs script attached to that does,
> among other things,
> self-propagation when opened/activated.
> 
> Naturally, Linux end-users need not concern
> themselves with this. :-)
> 
> Andrew.
> 
> --
> 
> Andrew Plumb, VE3SLG
> mailto://andrew(at)plumb(dot)org
> http://www.plumb.org/tekmage/
> spk2_0.0.2: 
> http://www.plumb.org/tekmage/source/spk2/
> 
> 
> 
> 
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