I work for a major corporation and just got this warning. Thought it worth passing on.
The message will have "Hi" or "FW: Hi!" in the subject line.
It will say one of the following in the body:
- How are you
- When I saw this screen saver, i imediately thought about you
- I am in a Harry, I promise you will love it
It will have a "gone.scr" attachment.
And it will kill your computer.
It is a worm that propogates throught Microsoft Outlook.
A pox on evil geniuses who develop these things!
Sarah
bdnow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm writing this primarily to those of you who are reading from the archives.
I'm at the ACRES USA conference with Hugh Lovel until 12/10 and won't
be of much service to anyone until after that date.
This recent spate of viruses has caused a very high number of BD Now!
subscribers to be unsubscribed from BD Now! The same problems have
caused many other subscribers to loose their abilitiy to receive
email. Even if you have not been infected by the virus itself, you
may have been affected.
At it's simplest, all the attachments that are being mailed by the
virus are filling up ISP mailboxes. I have never had my mailbox
overfilled and yet, twice now I have lost my email capabilities due
to my 10mb mailbox being over filled. Although I am on a major US
ISP, I was never notified that my mail was being bounced due to an
overfull ma! ilbox, and yet it was.
I encourage you to take a look into your mailbox. Use a 'webmail'
tool because what you are looking for may be emails that you normal
mail tool is blind to. (I think 'www.popmail.com' is a web mail
reader that will work for those of you who do not have webmail
through your ISP.)
Until this spate of foolishness abates, you may want to make checking
the actual content of your ISP mailbox part of your daily hygeine.
If you are not currently receiving BD Now!, you are going to have to
ask me to resubscribe you. Please sent me mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
'subscribe BD Now!" in the subject and your name and physical
location in the body of the mail.
All this reminds me: how come you radionics folks haven't fixed this
net virus problem yet?
Thanks and your patience is appreciated.
-Allan Balliett
moderator BD Now!
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