Aaarrgghhh Virus!

[R-u-Ready]

I dont know corwin any chick that is going to give you a "virus" no matter how hot she is you should stay away from...

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Flux capacitor overclocked to 1.31 jigawatts

[Wombat]

Hey! That's the stuff I use. Except they stopped making it. My girlfriend loved that stuff, too. Wish they still made it.

[Ant]

The virus came my way from Matrox, this is the second time, the last one was Pretty Park, I think they are trying to tell me something

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[The PIT]

Arr Matrox luvs you.

Does this mean they're a dodgy company?

Anyway all clear where I work. I'll just wait to some nutty profs open love letters from their female/male students then the fun will begin.

[DuRaNgO[MU]]

pretty park almost got me, luckily the gent that sent it to me called about an hour before I checked my mail to warn me
jim

[paulcs]

I received a single "love letter" this morning, just minutes after I noticed the two messages I received warning me about it.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[Dyre]

Ok, who here is stupid enough to run a VB script?

Come on, please tell me no MURC's were involved in helping this thing along.... i mean, jezzzzzzzz.... Havent people learned yet?

Personally, i think if you are stupid enough to RUN such an email, you really deservers whatever happens to your system.... of course those using the same email and are smart enough not to run the VBS get screwed too, which sucks.

<a href="http://www.thepope.org/index.pl?node_id=140" target"_blank">Real Easy way to kill it...</a>. The preivous is a link on how to easily kill this thing dead with a simple reg edit....

I really love these things. Who wants to bet this makes the evening news...

[The PIT]

Unless they've got the file extensions showing they wouldn't know it's vbs script.
Then saying that most poeple wouldn't know what a Vbs script is. Right a lot of poeple here would know the differance but many poeple out there don't know the differance between Windows 95 and Windows 3.11 dispite a screen telling them what there using.

[SteveC]

The PIT: True - if file extensions were hidden, the file would have looked the same as a .txt file.

Sigh - still no email at work or at uni....

I hope the author gets life for this!

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Hunsow]

I didn't get anything. Nobody seems to love me!

[KaosDG]

hrmph... Been here at work since 8:45am EST Thurs 5/4/2000 cleaning this muck up.

Now it's 5:15am EST on Fri 5/5/2000.
Theres too much blood in my caffeine system.

Anyway happy cinco de mayo to all who care.

[Vlip]

Strangely enough I didn't get any in my mailbox.

Maybe because most of my friends are computer nerds who won't open such files, maybe because I have no friends. Who knows ;-)

Vlip

[HollyBerri]

From MacAfee:

**UPDATE**: Two new variants were discovered at 3:00 pm today, 5/4/00. The information
below applies to all known variants.

Description
VBS/LoveLetter.worm arrives via email message with one of three subject lines:

"ILOVEYOU"
"Susitikim shi vakara kavos puodukui..."
"Joke"

The text reads "kindly check the attached LOVELETTER coming from me.", and the worm is
included in the attachment, called "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs" or "VeryFunny.vbs".

Seriously guys, is it just me?[list=1][*] Am I the only one who would get such a mail (and let us even say it claims to be from Jord, and that I believe that it is, despite the fact that he at least has heard of the space bar) and see a .vbs file (???!!!) and say, "what the heck is this??" I mean, until I read Steve's post, I wouldn't have been able to tell you what a .vbs file was without looking it up. And I would have looked it up before double-flipping-clicking it... OK, fine everyone is not so "computer-savvy" that they would spend 15 minutes deciding whether to open a file called "harmless.exe" from their fiance (it was), or 30 minutes deciding whether to open a "free gift" exe from a gray-market site (turned out to open the CD tray; the free gift was a cupholder ha ha ha). I understand that everybody doesn't v-scan mp3s, or actually read the .reg files that are included with errrr.... programs downloaded for backup purposes.... but I would *cough*if I actually had any such things on my system*cough*, and I have a hard time believing that someone who knows even less than I would not become even more alarmed and confused than I would at receiving such a mail![*] And if this came from my boss, or some unknown secretary in Accounting, I'd be even less likely to just blithely open it... Come on, a mail titled "ILOVEYOU" from one of your clents? From the VP of Sales? What the heck is wrong with these people??[/list=a]

Really, is it just me???? Gotta admit, it doesn't give me much confidence in Lloyds... the creator must be rolling on the floor laughing in total amazement at the overwhelming success of such an obvious trick...

I just don't get it.

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Holly

[cjolley]

I would like to say a nice word about my home isp - swbell
We have three email adresses and are also forwarded from two bigfoot accounts.
When I got home I checked them all and all the "I Love You"s had been deleted off the server.
Good work swbell!
chuck

ps I am usualy a big critic of isps. So this feels realy funny.

[HollyBerri]

And I just don't use Outlook, either... Netscape (NS) may be a kludge and crash all the time, but you do notice whose address books are <u>not</u> being mentioned as in danger....

Yeah, integrate IE and OE with the OS, that idea is looking better and better every day, ain't it? pfffft!

Oh and good for you, Chuck... since you said that, I went to my ISP's homepage, and they also caught it before distributing the mails to users... and they're just a small local ISP, not one of the biggies like Earthlink or Mindspring. It makes up for the fact that their webmail service isn't Y2K compliant and (still) dates such sent mail as year 000....

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Holly



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