Anna Kournikova Virus Alert
12 February 2001, 08:34 PM
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Although it's been around since August 2000, it's currently rampant (Messagelabs has intercepted 2000 copies in 4 hours)
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>The worm comes in an email with the subject line "Here you have, ;o)" and an attachment called AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs.
VBS/SST is written in Visual Basic Script and has mass mailing characteristics, which means it will email itself to everyone in a Outlook users' address book. The worm only infects machines running Microsoft Windows and will only be able to propagate on machines running Outlook that have not installed the patch Microsoft provided after the outbreak of the Love Bug, which used very similar propagation techniques. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I've had a copy sent to me from a mail order computer company.
If you've got anti-virus installed, then don't forgot those updates. If not, why not?
Further reading:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>The worm comes in an email with the subject line "Here you have, ;o)" and an attachment called AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs.
VBS/SST is written in Visual Basic Script and has mass mailing characteristics, which means it will email itself to everyone in a Outlook users' address book. The worm only infects machines running Microsoft Windows and will only be able to propagate on machines running Outlook that have not installed the patch Microsoft provided after the outbreak of the Love Bug, which used very similar propagation techniques. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I've had a copy sent to me from a mail order computer company.
If you've got anti-virus installed, then don't forgot those updates. If not, why not?
Further reading:
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