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Subject: Re: Off Topic: Virus (worm) that may be Spreading here.

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 13:35:57 03/21/00

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On March 21, 2000 at 09:52:14, Eelco de Groot wrote:

>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.

I got the EXE but I wasn't crazy enough to run it.

It would have been sick-funny if I had run it.  My address book has thousands of
entries in it, including everyone who issued a CCC moderation complaint during a
period of about seven months, or who I yelled at during that period.

bruce



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