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Thread #21088   Message #222919
Posted By: SDShad
04-May-00 - 11:49 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Despicable Virus Alert
Subject: RE: Tech: Despicable Virus Alert
Really, really, really don't open this evil abomination.

Three people in our department did, and it's getting ugly. Not only does it send itself out to anyone in your Contacts and Personal Address Book, apparently if you're on a Microsoft Exchange server (which we are) it sends it out to everyone on the Exchange global address list. Even after cleaning it, one of our people still had 700 messages waiting to send in the Outbox.

What's more, it infects all GIF, JPG, MP2, MP3, and .MPG files, and at least with our antivirus package, Command Antivirus, the only disinfect technique is to delete the infected file.

And apparently, if goes out to a website where it downloads and runs another destructive program (which may be what actually messes with your multimedia files, I'm not sure).

Melissa was nothing compared to the Love Bug. Avoid, avoid, avoid.

Chris