Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 17:44:06 05/05/00
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On May 05, 2000 at 20:16:35, Frederic Friedel wrote: >Dear friends, > >On Thursday a Philippine schoolboy sent out an email message containing the "I >love you virus". Within 24 hours this program had spread all around the world, >clogging Internet mailing systems, deleting files and causing maybe a billion >dollars of damage. Today we are being swamped by clones. CBS just reported that >more than ten million computers have now been infected. > >What to do? In the media experts have been quick to offer bad or useless advice. >Nobody mentions a simple, quick-fix solution which can implemented in just a few >minutes. I have posted the details at > >http://www.chessbase.com/vcure/ > >The page also contains a tiny program (159 bytes) that allows you to test >whether the solution works on your system. If it does you are safe from the >ILoveYou virus or any of the thousands of clones we are going to see in the next >weeks and months. I've just tried Martin Friedel's solution. It works great! My system is Windows 2000 Professional. After renaming the wscript.exe the system requires reinstalling it from the Win 2000 CD for reasons of stability but you may just ignore this and your Windows will work fine. Frederic, thanks to you and Martin. *** Djordje
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