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

Lilly S. lilly at shellyeah.org
Thu May 4 16:49:24 EST 2000


Yet another reason for companies to migrate to Linux. M$:0 Linux:1! (i
know the count is much higher than 0-1, but it's a figure of speech). 

Lilly


On Thu, 4 May 2000, alissa bader wrote:

> 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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