virus warning for those of you that sill use windows.Forwarded mail....

[Shaun Oliver]

ok guys I thought those of you who still use windows machines such as
myself would like to see this. sorry about the attachment.

Shaun..
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 14:28:44 +1000
From: Sam <samhowe at goanna.net.au>
To: shauno at goanna.net.au

A new computer virus is using an old trick to get unsuspecting 
recipients to infect others. The Symantec Anti-Virus Research 
Center is warning of the VBS.Hard.A at mm worm, which arrives in 
an e-mail titled "FW: Symantec Anti-Virus Warning." The folks
at Symantec are not amused. Vincent Weafer, the security c
ompany's director, told TechWeb News: "We've seen this before," 
adding, "We haven't seen many infections yet" of the new virus. 
Infected e-mail messages arrive with the following message:
"Hello, There is a new worm on the Net. This worm is very fast 
spreading and very dangerous!

Symantec has first noticed it on April 04, 2001. The attached 
file is a description of the worm and how it replicates itself. 
With regards, F. Jones Symantec senior developer." The 
message's attachment, www.symantec.com.vbs, sends victims to a 
fake Symantec site and does the dirty work of trying to mail 
itself to other recipients in a computer's Microsoft Outlook
address book.


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