Author: Frederic Friedel
Date: 14:35:42 02/12/01
URGENT VIRUS ALERT -- not a hoax, believe me!! There is a new, potentially very wide-spread virus on the rampage. A colleague in England has already been hit, and you will hear all about it tomorrow in the news. Here’s a quick description to help you avoid infection: * The virus or worm arrives as an e-mail with the subject: "Here you have, :o)" * The body of the message then contains the following brief message: "Hi: Check This!" * The virus itself is in an attachment called "AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs". This lures people into opening or double-clicking to see the picture. This is especially the case if the attachment's second extension is hidden, which is often the default setting (it then appears as AnnaKournikova.jpg). People think it is a JPEG picture of the young Russian tennis star. * Upon execution of the Visual Basic Script, which is what the file actually contains, the worm copies itself to the Windows directory, and then sends the file as an attachment to every address listed in an infected user's Microsoft Outlook address book. * Additionally, it will attempt to launch a browser directed to a particular Web site on January 26 of every year. Other effects may be present but I do not yet know about them. So watch out, don’t open any Kournikova attachments, don’t open any VBS attachments (ever, anyway), keep checking the news for the latest on the development of the infection. It could be as big as the I-Love-You virus, which caused literally billions of dollars in damages.
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