Author: Tina Long
Date: 04:25:21 03/21/00
Hi guys, We received the PrettyPark Virus (worm) from a CCC member today. It is a file called PrettyPark.exe If you receive it attached to an EMail, DO NOT RUN THIS FILE, just delete it. Once we received it, & ran the file (I'm a trusting soul, & it did have a Stan-Sth Park Icon), it aimed to send EMails to everybody in our Address Book, spreading the virus to them. As far as we know we have nobody in our Address Book (where's our address book?), and everytime our computer tried all by itself to log into the internet we smacked it's wrist, so we think we didn't send it to anybody. But as we got it from a member of CCC, others here may have received it too. http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q249/9/21.ASP gives the method of removing the virus if you have received it. It doesn't delete anything, but it tricks your computer into not wanting to run Applications. You can run applications by clicking on files (eg. a .txt will open Notepad, .htm will open Navigator etc). If anybody wants help, feel free to EMail me. Thanks Guys, Tina Long
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