Well my day has been exciting, how about yours?

I'm sure I'm not the only one cleaning the Love Letter A virus off company machines. I must say that I found this virus pretty interesting and am actually having some fun battling it.

For those of you who don't know please delete any e-mails with the title "I LOVE YOU". You will find out just how much you are loved if you open the attachment so don't open it.

You've been warned

 

I LOVE YOU!!!!
BILL

 

I dont even want to talk about it....that was TOO NASTY!



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eric@sapp.com
2000 Silver Lightning
94 Black (Gone but not Forgotten)

 

That totally SUCKED.

CA

 

The worst virus making the rounds that I have found is the WScript.worm virus. It is an email virus and if someone sends it to you unknowingly as it attaches to all your outgoing messages, You will get it even if you just read it without opening the file. If you highlight it to delete you got it. It gets in a back door of outlook express. Nasty Virus. Corrupts a registry key, adds a startup command to your autoexec.bat files and starts eating up your unused disk space and will bring your computer to its knees. I had to reload Windows 95 and all my software. Fortuantely a computer wizard friend of mine was able to save all my data.
Microsoft has a 1 min. download that patches the hole in outlook express, look for the word eyedog in the title. Norton Anti Virus 2000 Ver. 6.0 now has email protection from email virus. A good investment. I got it from a precher. Most people don't know they have it until someone they email has good antivirus software an catches it. This is a new virus first found in 12/99. Norton didn't defend against it until late march download.
noelvm

 

All I got to say is I'm glad it didn't get to our MP3 server *grin*

30 Gigs of mp3's is alot of songs to lose!

 

If you are using Outlook Express then yuou are more vunelreable to these viruses. I know for sure with McAfee if you dont update every Friday when they do then you are out of date just like that.
I work for America Online and I see this day in and day out. Best thing to do is just watch who you open downloads from and then pray they arent smart enough to hit you with something like Bubble boy that would infect you as soon as you opened it.

Eric

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"Big E"
Red 2000
Born on 3-27-00
In-dash CD player
Clear Corner Lens
Super White bulbs in headlights and fog lamps
Spray in bedliner
Tinted Windows
Valentine 1
Viper 550E alarm
Water Wetter

 

What a day........

It's days like this that separate the men from the boys.....

Rich MSCE, MCP+I (no Engineer sh**, ok?)

 

The problem was that none of the virus sites were updated since they were unaware of the new virus.

Its hard to stop a problem if you have no fix. All you can do is contain the problem and keep it from spreading while you wait for the fix.

I was able to undo most of what the virus did with the exception of the deleted files.

All in all damage was pretty minimal here compared to what could have happened.

 

Reason #999 I am glad I use a Mac, and have no Microjunk on it.

 

I think MAC's are a virus all on there own. hehe

UNIX seems to be the way to go!

 

We went to datafellows.com and F-Secure
had instructions on how to repair the workstation that the I LOVE YOU E-mail was opened on. We only had one person do that before we could alert everyone.

Just getting Norton's vaccine now.

Anyone know where I can get smooth chrome center caps if I have my wheels chromed ?

 

I agree with Pacecar, UNIX is where it's at,
baby! btw, Solaris is free for sparc
and intel x86 (minus support, of course),
can d/l at http://www.sun.com and virtually
never have to reboot
But alas, still have to use Microsoft (even
in our solaris run site) for those apps..

 

The Jacksonville FL office of Computer Associates where I work had the virus as well, but I think we caught it before anyone opened it and shut down all the e-mail servers.

We make a network anivirus software called InnocuLAN. I got the message but deleted it as I had already been made aware of it. Also, the virus protection on my computer here was automatically updated about 4 times yesterday while I was connected to the LAN.

BEWARE of copycat virus today. There subject is "fwd: joke" and "oh really" I believe.

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Chris Thomas
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