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Thread #21088   Message #223003
Posted By: Homeless
04-May-00 - 01:29 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Despicable Virus Alert
Subject: RE: Tech: Despicable Virus Alert
We got hit with this today at our corporate office. I received 23 messages within 5 minutes. A couple things about this... IF YOU DON'T OPEN THE ATTACHMENT, your machine is not infected. If you do open the attachment, you will be infected and will need to do some serious fixing (at least on Win 95/98). The virus will look at the .jpg, .jpeg, .mpg, .mp3 and possibly other files on your drive and create new VBasic scripts with the same name. This is the manner in which it infects them. It does not actually change the files themselves. You need to delete all these .vbs files from you computer. In addition, there will be a WIN32DLL.VBS file created on your computer which needs deleted. Finally, there are a few places in the registry where keys get created to propogate this virus. All these new keys need deleted. If you are computer savvy, the keys can be found in any of the .vbs files - just open them with notepad. If you're not familiar with the registry, don't mess with it - get one of the anti-virus packages and hope it disinfects everything.