Author: Tony Werten
Date: 06:25:48 05/04/00
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On May 04, 2000 at 09:15:46, Frederic Friedel wrote: >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. Or we allready have. Our university's mailserver has crashed already because of this virus. The problem is not that it deletes jpg etc files, but that it sends itself to all members in the mailinglist. There are over 6000 students in our mailinglist. 10 minutes after the first mail came in the mailserver crashed. I thought nobody would be stupid enough to start a script you got from somebody you don't know. I was wrong. Tony > >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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