Virus Concern

["A. Mattox" <amattox@mbl.edu>]

  radsafe@romulus.edhs.uiuc.edu



In light of the fact that I've rec'd this virus three times today from
radsafe here is info from our computer group...

Please DO NOT open the attachment on emails with the following format:

Subject:    Here you have, ;o)

Body:       Hi:Check This!

Attachment: AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs

Some people have already opened it, and, while it will not directly
delete any files, it does make changes to your Windows system that ISD
will have to
come to remove.

The following message came from the Bloomberg news service a short time
ago:

02/12 14:00

Computer Virus Disguised as Anna Kournikova Photo Is Spreading
       By Greg Chang

   San Francisco, Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) -- A fast-spreading computer virus

posing
as a photograph of tennis star Anna Kournikova has infected systems at
scores of companies in Europe and the U.S., experts at antivirus
software
companies said.
   The electronic-mail borne virus mainly causes a nuisance by clogging
e-mail
systems. It doesn't appear to erase any personal computer files, experts

said.
   Machines of users who attempt to download the picture of Kournikova
become infected. The virus then e-mails itself to users listed in the
infected
computer's e-mail address book. Only users with Microsoft Corp.'s
Outlook
e-mail software are infected.
   Symantec rates the virus medium to high risk, assigning it a 4 rating

on a
scale of 5. Antivirus firm Trend Micro Inc. rates it high risk.







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