I would like to see this.
My network was infected. We downloaded and ran the latest McAfee updates,
yet still today I come into the office and I observe that all of the .jpg
files, on my file server, where nobody has used outlook for over a year,
have been rewritten as .vbs files. Do you have any insight?
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Ling [SMTP:martin@nodezero.org.uk]
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 7:41 AM
To: extropians@extropy.com
Subject: Re: heads up:VBS.LoveLetter.A virus
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 07:32:39AM -0400, Matt Gingell wrote:
> There are more creative ways to do this stuff - like, instead of
> sending out copies of yourself with the same dopey title, pick
entries
> from the inbox and reply to them or resend items from sentmail.
And
> send out children titled with variations on: 'how to protect
yourself
> against the I-Love-You virus.'
>
> The vbscript source for this thing was posted on Slashdot, so look
> there if you're curious how these things work. It's very simple,
and
> it's a very effective demonstration of how the scripting in
Outlook
> can be exploited.
I have a full copy of the first-generation message. I can post it
(in
'castrated' form or otherwise) to anyone who requests.
Martin
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