Author: Frederic Friedel
Date: 06:15:46 05/04/00
This is a real warning (not a hoax). The "LoveLetter" virus is unfortunately quite genuine and has crippled the company of an associate. It is completey new (discovered on May 4, 2000) and is still being investigated at the Symantec virus center. My associate is checking out the source to find out what it exactly does. We will be hearing a lot about this virus soon. Here's a short description: VBS.LoveLetter.A is an email worm and a file infector. It will use Microsoft Outlook and email itself out as an attachment with the following subject line and attachment name: Subject of e-mail: ILOVEYOU Name of attachment: LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs Size of attachment: 10307 The body of the message will be "kindly check the attached LOVELETTER coming from me." The virus will also infect files with the following extensions: vbs, vbe, js, jse, css, wsh, sct, hta, jpg, jpeg, mp3, and mp2 You can find out more from http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.loveletter.a.html ------------------- General warning: Do not open executable attachments to your emails, especially if you do not have the latest virus protection. Even if you do treat any executable attachment as a potentially hostile adversory, irrespective of whom it is from (email worms send mail all by themselves from an infected host). When I receive an email attachment that wants to execute I treat it like a hooded man at my front door. Take off the mask, identify yourself and let me do a quick virus scan -- then, if your credentials are okay, you may enter.
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