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Subject: Re: A two-minute fix for the ILoveYou virus and all clones

Author: Frederic Friedel

Date: 07:51:17 05/06/00

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On May 05, 2000 at 20:44:06, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:

>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.
>

Martin and his group have been studying the virus. It's really very primitive.
Their current thinking is that is was written by a 15-year-old who got all the
instructions he needed from the Microsoft tutorial which is automatically
installed together with the Windows Scripting Host. It tells you exactly how to
fiddle around with the registry, delete files, make the mailer perform unnatural
acts -- really anything. Firewalls are silly when you have something like this
resident on your system, waiting to be activated by mail attachments.



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