Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 06:52:14 03/21/00
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On March 21, 2000 at 07:25:21, Tina Long wrote: >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 Thousand apologies, the virus came via me. Bruce Moreland, Jeroen van Dorp Stephen Boak and Tina were in my address book so if any of you received Pretty Park.exe do not open it. Problem is now that I followed the instructions in the article Tina posted but some applications still do not run directly, that is to say Internet Explorer I can open only by opening a file and when I start the computer I get an error message that says, in Dutch, the equivalent of: Access denied to C:\Program Files\MSWorks\Agenda\WKCALREM.EXE So I thought this may be a new variant of the virus? Anybody any ideas what to do? Any suggestions very much appreciated! Help please and sorry again! I post this here because I do not know if it is safe to use email at the moment. Eelco
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