OFF: Virus alert (genuine)

[Chris Bates]

>>>>> "Rich" == Richard Lockwood <rich-l at GEOCITIES.COM> writes:
    Rich> We've just been hit by a nasty script virus here.  If you

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Spooky. I just received this virus via another mailing list and had
sent a warning off to them and to the guy who (probably inadvertantly)
sent it. BTW it's not listed with Symantec so their virus checkers
probably won't pick it up.

    Rich> looking at it now here, but DON'T OPEN IT.  It'll also send
    Rich> itself to everyone in your address book (we think).

Yeah, it certainly runs some Outlook function or other. The moral here
being use a proper email program and don't automate the handling of
MIME types. Much the same information can be found at:

http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/love.htm

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Chris Bates (c.d.bates at shu.ac.uk)
School of Computing and Management Sciences - Sheffield Hallam University
for HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, Perl, CGI Programming advice see:
http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cms/teaching/crb/book/