Although this is off topic, and yes I know that there are those of you that believe that Linux is immune to viruses, there are still some on the list that may be affected by this virus, especially those that use The Other Operating System, to read their mail with. Stephen Dawes B.A. B.Sc. Web Business Office, The City of Calgary PHONE: (403) 268-5527. FAX: (403) 268-6423 E-MAIL ADDRESS: sdawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca -----Original Message----- From: ITS Security [mailto:its.security@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 8:35 AM To: Strategic.Services at gov.calgary.ab.ca Subject: FW: Virus alert Importance: High This Internet worm was created with a Visual Basic Script worm generator. It propagates only via Microsoft Outlook by sending itself as an email attachment to all addresses listed in the infected user's address book. After this, the worm tries to randomly open certain pornographic Web sites using Internet Explorer. The worm checks if the email that it sent out exists in the MS Outlook Journal and Sent Items folder, by looking for the subject "Homepage." When it finds email with the subject "Homepage" in these folders, the worm deletes the email to prevent detection. It arrives looking like the following: Subject: Homepage Message Body: Hi! You've got to see this page! It's really cool ;O) Attachment: HOMEPAGE.HTML.VBS Again: The City's e-mail virus scanning software is scanning for the new worm, and the desktop Norton Antivirus software will also identify it if Norton is up to date and running. However, as many of you have computers at home it was decided to issue an alert. Please use caution when processing e-mail and opening attachments, even from known contacts. Thank you. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://linux-speakup.org/pipermail/speakup/attachments/20010509/2617483e/attachment.html>
