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Re: [sharechat] VIRUS WARNING

From:	"Geoff Ewert" <gewert@wai.quik.co.nz>
Date:	Fri, 5 May 2000 11:02:55 +1200

Thanks Nigel.How do we find Symantecs web site?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nigel McCarter" <n.mccarter@clear.net.nz>
To: <sharechat@sharechat.co.nz>
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 10:21 AM
Subject: [sharechat] VIRUS WARNING


> 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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