From: Chris Dowling <cdowling>
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 10:41:25 -0600

Friday evening, November 3rd, two messages with attachments passed to members of the CCBC-Net list. The attachments appear to have contained a virus. The virus becomes active when the attachment is opened. Do not open attachments for these messages...

Subject: MOAUXI Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 21:25:49 00

Subject: US PRESIDENT AND FBI SECRETS =PLEASE VISIT => ()<Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 21:27:09 00


The virus is a version of the infamous LoveLetter virus. It spreads using the Microsoft Outlook email application, and sends a copy of itself to all addresses in the infected user's address book. It also overwrites other VisualBasic script, JavaScript, and JPEG image files with a copy of itself. It affects Microsoft Windows computers where one is using the Microsoft Outlook email application. If one is not using either Microsoft Windows or Outlook, then the risk of infection is unlikely.

To read more about the virus and how to recover from it, look at the following web sites...

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.plan.a.html http://www.europe.f-secure.com/v?scs/love.htm

~~~~~ Chris Dowling, Network Services Manager CIMC, School of Education, UW-Madison 225 N. Mills Street, Madison, WI 53706 voice(608&3C39), fax(608&2`50)
Received on Mon 06 Nov 2000 10:41:25 AM CST