Forum Archive Index - May 2000

[Nigel McCarter <n.mccarter@clear.net.nz>]

You may have heard on the news this morning that a new email virus is
rapidly making its way 
around the world.  It comes as a message with the title ILOVEYOU, and
contains an attachment 
which, if opened, will send itself on to everybody in the address book of
people using the Microsoft 
Outlook mail client.  As NIWA is in general not using Microsoft Outlook we
are immune from this, 
however staff are likely to receive numbers of these messages from people
in other organisations 
and these are going to have nuisance value - one staff member at Greta
Point has received 3 
already this morning.

The Norton Antivirus definitions have not yet been updated to recognise
this virus - I will make them 
available as soon as they appear on Symantec's web site.

Meanwhile if you receive an email that has any of the following
characteristics:

Subject:  ILOVEYOU
Body:           Kindly check the attached LOVELETTER coming from me
Attachment:  LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs

 - please resist the temptation to see who it comes from and delete it
without opening it.

Nigel McCarter
Safety Management and Information Services Ltd
Box 23 019 Hamilton
Phone 64 7 858 2429 Fax 64 858 2689
Mobile 02 212 4901

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