Re: RE: Fwd:Love Bug Virus

From: Bernd D. Ratsch (bernd@texas.net)
Date: Thu May 04 2000 - 14:42:46 EDT


Piece of cake to fix...as long as your files didn't get altered. McAfee is
releasing the fix at 4pm PST today.

http://vil.nai.com/villib/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=98617

- Bernd

At 12:07 PM 05/04/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Yep! Shut the office down for a couple of hours today and we had to call or
>e-mail all of our clients about it!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: fawcett@uism.bu.edu [mailto:fawcett@uism.bu.edu]
>Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 11:37 AM
>To: dakota-truck@BUFFNET.NET
>Subject: DML: Fwd:Love Bug Virus
>
>
>FYI
>
>____________________Forward Header_____________________
>Subject: Love Bug Virus
>Date: 5/4/00 11:16 AM
>
>This is to inform you of a new computer virus spread via email. The message
>will be titled "ILOVEYOU" find a strange attachment file with a snakelike
>icon
>called "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs."
>Simply reading the e-mail does no harm. But opening the attachment implants
>code. This occurs in MS Outlook/MS Exchange. This has not been reported to
>affect CC Mail, but I thought I would make you aware of the problem. If you
>would like to forward this to your group.



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